I really don't think it's that I'm lazy, but...does anyone else have problems like this?

metaphor • 12 February 2013 at 12:21 AM

I guess I'm just here trying to justify my patheticness or something, but here's the thing.

I am a procrastinator when it comes to writing assignments. and it's not that I don't want to write, I usually am excited to do so. But...I get stuck. And then I end up sitting here for hours staring at a blank screen, only to have it suddenly come to me in one big burst and then be done within a couple hours or so. And it's like I'm just putting out whatever crap I can come up with; I am very obsessed with the quality of what I'm writing, and it reflects in the grade I get for these things, which then makes all my worrying seem silly (and it is).

So...am I just being a lazy little lazy head? Or does anyone have a similar problem? I don't know if it's just me being a perfectionist or if I'm just blocked up or what, but once I get going, I'm good. It's just getting going.

evilyowling • 12 February 2013 at 12:39 AM

@metaphor

I feel sometimes that happens to me where I just sit there blank on what to write! But lately I've thought up what I choose to write about so I haven't had this problem recently.

I wonder why this happens?

metaphor • 12 February 2013 at 12:41 AM

@evilyowling

I think it may be something similar to stage fright--you're facing your audience knowing what you have to do, but you're just so frozen by your own anxiety that you just can't bring yourself to do it.

This shouldn't even be that hard. It's basically just writing about myself while drawing parallels to a couple readings. As someone who loves the genre of creative nonfiction, I know how to do this. I'm just freaking myself out, and it makes it worse when I don't even know how this instructor grades.

evilyowling • 12 February 2013 at 1:09 AM

@metaphor

That must be it and trying to have the best wording etc. doesn't help. :S Also writing about yourself must trigger it since well you don't want muddled up writing about yourself.

honk • 12 February 2013 at 1:11 AM

@metaphor
I am lazy am I know it if you are lazy join the lazy club

#AAA

metaphor • 12 February 2013 at 1:11 AM

@evilyowling

Yeah, and it stinks because I know the point I want to argue and the sources I want to use to back it up. I just want to try to make it as articulate as possible without trying too hard.