I'm not going to lie. I'm extremely uncomfortable when I'm told that I can do whatever I want when I grow up or how I can decide to write about anything. Whenever I hear somebody tell me that, I get really nervous because I'm a very indecisive person. As a result, I don't like having too much freedom because I won't be able to make up my mind. It's almost painful for me when I have to think of something to write about, including this blog post. I normally have to spend anywhere between 5 minutes to an hour to think of something meaningful to write about.
Again I'll go back to when I was thinking about writing for Jerry. At first, I felt that I had just created the most simplistic character I could think of and, in a way, that was true. I started with a simple character, one that would be easy to write about. However, as I continued writing about Jerry I tried to make him a bit more complex, or at the very least, I tried to not use the simplest ideas I could come up with.
Now I'm working on thinking of anything really meaningful I can write about for either a blog or an essay, and I'm honestly blanking on everything. I could talk about how I do enjoy some freedom, but it depends on the situation. I don't want too much freedom for something like an essay because, as I've already stated, I'll have an extremely hard time thinking of something to write about. However, for a creative writing assignment, I would like a tiny bit of freedom (I might be contradicting what I said earlier, and if so, sorry!). Then in the case of having homework to do, I would want complete freedom in deciding what homework I should work on first.
I guess my point (if I even have a point) is that I do enjoy being able to make my own choices, but whenever it comes to writing about something, I would like it if I had some choices of what I could write about given to me. Maybe one day I'll be able to decide on something without taking a long amount of time, but as of now, I doubt it will ever happen.
Good introductory posts, Eric. I hope you can find some focus within all this freedom. One thing to think about is using in-class prompts as starting points for assignments, both essays and blog posts. That's part of what they're there for.
ReplyDelete:) It was very ironic because you were given the opportunity to write about whatever you want and you ended up choosing to write on that very topic (is ironic the right word here?). However, I totally understand. With so much freedom--ambiguity really-- there is so much room for error and too many roads to take. It's one of the worse things you can be told. Just like all things in life, freedom has to be given in moderation.
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