The Power Of Procrastinative: The Art Of Writing

Writing is such an empty word. Spawning the future wisdom. Unleashing my cerebral content. Birthing the intellectual weapons for a future generation. Writing is the creation of shareable ideas for all in the world to read and assimilate, and each and every one of us has the power to do it. Writing is an Art, as elaborate, as emotional, as personal, and as valuable as any painting or sculpture or building. Words form the bricks, the paint, and the marble. Then the word weaver’s choice of words and organization of thoughts and presentation are the brush strokes the chisel marks and the architecture. I never saw writing as an art before this class but through it I now know what a joy it is to create with my inner voice.

When I started this class

The more you do it the more stressed, and the more stressed the more you avoid the art of writing, then writing loses its creative spark, it’s banal lack of allure leads to more procrastination. Through this class I have become far less of a procrastinator through my newfound love of the art of writing, but it is still an area I would love to improve on further. Part of the unseen problem with procrastination is that it eliminates the necessary time to become an expert of the material necessary to write a compelling essay. Part of the maturation as a writer this class has helped me solidify is the knowledge that to attack an essay with ambition for perfection and having an expert level command of the material is ideal, but procrastination eliminates this opportunity. Sometimes what you learn NOT to do is far more valuable than learning specific skills for specific subsections of a discipline. Usually, as is with this, what NOT to do applies to all subsections of a discipline and even other things in life. Certainly procrastination applies stress no matter what you’re procrastinating

After taking this class I realize the draft process is kind of an antiquated idea. I used to write the whole draft, get it critiqued, write another one, and ad infinitum until I got feedback the writing was ideal or as good as it was going to get. The draft process is obviated by the ability to just cut and paste whole paragraphs of material and rearrange it, read it, and then put it back if it’s wrong. Now my writing process is different. I just put the work away for a while and come back to it and read it with a fresh mind. I see things I didn’t see before and also can get confused by my own clunky paragraphs and then with this new fresh perspective alter them to make the paragraphs and ideas flow better! By no means am I perfect at this part of the writing process and having a more organized and less organic revision process is one area I would like to improve