A million thoughts flow through my mind every day. Some of them would make good blog posts, if I were to expand on them and put in examples and links to websites, stories, either personal or public, etc. But I never get them down in time. Or if I do get a stroke of luck and find a piece of paper and a pen (it's always near impossible to find both at the same time), what I write does not have the surreal qualities it took in my mind.
Some of these thoughts would be good to write an essay on. Some would even make a good TV show. If only I could get them to paper in time. Writing is important to me; I need to get everything down on paper. I need to see it organized in front of me before it starts to make much sense, and it is this that makes me such a visual person.
It's my belief that the essays written by the dramatists and gentlemen of Renaissance England are basically blogs on paper. Or we could be more correct and say that today's blogs are yesterday's essays. They wrote essays concerning everything from their thoughts on the weather to local politicians to plays and other forms of entertainment. Today, Perez Hilton covers entertainment, among many others, and several nameless people comment on politics and the weather. One look at reddit and you'll see an extensive list of such essays.
I won't bore you with more of my thoughts, essentially because I don't have many more. I just received a paper back in an English class that got a C+, which depresses me, since I'm an English major. On the other hand, I did not spend much time on the paper; I didn't come up with a topic until two weeks beforehand. What I can take from the paper are mistakes I made, and I can learn from those mistakes. Mistake number 1 was waiting until the last minute to do the paper. Number 2 was not writing a detailed outline before going into the final draft. I know to do those things ahead of time this time around. I also know to have a clearer thesis statement, and better supporting arguments.
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