Sailing

There is little better than the feeling that you can just coast through an assignment hit the grammar review button and get the message that there are 'no errors found.' Or when a teacher has nothing to say about a paper except 'excellent work here.' Through my journey or writing for higher education courses I have had the privilege to these simple satisfactions a fair number of times after working out my own shortcomings in writing. You feel like every tool and technique you have learned flow seamlessly together and you can use them to overcome even the most daunting of waves that are often found in the writing worlds. Below are some examples of classes that the writing portion of the class was far less trying than other non-writing parts may have been.

Intermediate Writing

Math 1010

Intro to Critical Literature

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.