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I will post this in its entirety, because it is fucking amusing to me. ENG 101 will be, uhm, interesting.
Andrew Dooley
ENG 101
Exercise 1
1. My writing tends to reflect the room I write in and my current mood. Although I like to listen to music almost all the time, I can’t write poetry while listening to loud music because I use bass and drum beats as cues for line breaks and pace. I also can’t listen to music when I am writing essays because it distracts me too much. Music is infinitely more interesting to me than essay writing.
I also have a problem with shoes. Shoes are fine for wearing and walking around, but they don’t allow me to feel entirely loose and comfortable when I am writing. Really thick wool socks are great for my writing, and are apparently great for wearing when trying to kill deer. That’s what my Step-Dad* had them for. I hope he does not realize I have taken them.
When I write poetry I like to wait until the end of the day, so that I have nothing on my mind that I have to look forward to or be worried about. Poetry comes out the best (for me) when I have nothing ahead on the agenda. I used to write in notebooks, but I have unbelievable poor handwriting. I prefer to type on my computer because it is allows more freedom than ruled paper. On a computer I feel no need to hit the
margins,
I can make line beaks whenever I choose.
Computers also making a really cool clicking noise. It seems like I am actually accomplishing someone when I pound on my keyboard. My little sister is a bit more hardcore about writing than me; she likes to hammer on a typewriter. We are a very acoustically inclined family.
Although I never felt like a bad essay writer, formal writing puts me into a foul mood most of the time. Instead of sitting at my softly lit desk in socks, I end up in the impossibly bright fluorescence and bare white walls of the study room. The study room is solitary confinement for writers. It allows me to slog through an essay and get over it. There are no distractions in the study room, no noise, or other people. I need to be left alone when I write essays, I feel no such need when I am writing poems.
*I hate the words “Step-Dad” and “Step-Father”. He is as much a Dad as my “Father-Dad”. Sorry, I had to mention that.
Andrew Dooley
ENG 101
Exercise 1
1. My writing tends to reflect the room I write in and my current mood. Although I like to listen to music almost all the time, I can’t write poetry while listening to loud music because I use bass and drum beats as cues for line breaks and pace. I also can’t listen to music when I am writing essays because it distracts me too much. Music is infinitely more interesting to me than essay writing.
I also have a problem with shoes. Shoes are fine for wearing and walking around, but they don’t allow me to feel entirely loose and comfortable when I am writing. Really thick wool socks are great for my writing, and are apparently great for wearing when trying to kill deer. That’s what my Step-Dad* had them for. I hope he does not realize I have taken them.
When I write poetry I like to wait until the end of the day, so that I have nothing on my mind that I have to look forward to or be worried about. Poetry comes out the best (for me) when I have nothing ahead on the agenda. I used to write in notebooks, but I have unbelievable poor handwriting. I prefer to type on my computer because it is allows more freedom than ruled paper. On a computer I feel no need to hit the
margins,
I can make line beaks whenever I choose.
Computers also making a really cool clicking noise. It seems like I am actually accomplishing someone when I pound on my keyboard. My little sister is a bit more hardcore about writing than me; she likes to hammer on a typewriter. We are a very acoustically inclined family.
Although I never felt like a bad essay writer, formal writing puts me into a foul mood most of the time. Instead of sitting at my softly lit desk in socks, I end up in the impossibly bright fluorescence and bare white walls of the study room. The study room is solitary confinement for writers. It allows me to slog through an essay and get over it. There are no distractions in the study room, no noise, or other people. I need to be left alone when I write essays, I feel no such need when I am writing poems.
*I hate the words “Step-Dad” and “Step-Father”. He is as much a Dad as my “Father-Dad”. Sorry, I had to mention that.