Drowning

There were times when I was writing for a course that I felt as if I were drowning. It may have been from the short amount of time I had or had given myself to complete it or the fact that I felt unprepared or unsure of myself when I went to compose it. In either case I believe this is a common feeling to have when diving into a type of writing that you are unfamiliar just as it would likely feel if you were treading out in the open ocean. Even with the struggles I had with some of these texts, later, from what I had learned from them, I would find myself a stronger writer or even use some of my failures to create new improved versions that far surpasses previous attempts. Here are some prime examples of course work where I was completely over my head at the start but gradually was able to surface safely.

Environmental Science

Grammar and Style

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Environmental Yoga

Writing Studies

Let's think of the ideas or thoughts we want to convey as the water. It flows and often follows where it can be led or follows in directions it already knows. Next, let's think of the act of freezing like the act of writing those things down. We claim a position, sometimes rethinking it and forming it up in other ways, like the melting or thawing of water. If we think of this chemically, then the molecules move fast, if they move too fast they become air and float away, like unwritten ideas but when they freeze they slow down, sometimes barely moving on a point and that is writing them down. It is then we can see them interact with other molecules of thoughts or water (though in other states they can as well), some may even follow another's lead, slowing down to listen or move on with that idea, changing it to fit them. However, it's when many begin to listen or to think about it that it creates the sheets of ice that can move mountains. Sometimes those written sheets of ice move slowly to create the changes in our world. Sometimes in an instance, it finds just the right crack and breaks and crumbles the solid foundations that needed to move aside. No matter the change or speed the water, ice, or stone, makes, it is the constant transformation that writing should continue to solidify within and beyond us.