My biggest fear that I have experienced while writing my literary guide to The New York Times was failure. I don’t want to spend hours languishing on a paper and then get to class to see that everything that I did was wrong. During the drafting process I experience this fear a lot. I am unsure of whether or not to include a sentence or focus on a subject because I’m not positive on its validity in my paper. I know that in order to write this paper successfully, I will have to overcome this fear and will probably have to write multiple drafts before my final.
No Rules? No Problem.
Before I came to college, I had always thought that when it came to writing papers, I would be following strict guidelines. Now that I am in the second unit of my writing class, I have come to realize that writing is a lot harder when you actually have to do most of the thinking yourself. I had never thought that simply picking a topic and its structure would be so hard but I was wrong. This Literary Guide is like nothing that I have ever done before, but I feel that by doing it I will become a better writer.