1. What was the most challenging part of writing your conceptual/memory essay?
When I write essays I am usually able to come up with what I want to write about, my problem is having my thoughts come out onto paper. What I am thinking makes sense to me, but other people have trouble other standing. I have to work on the flow of my essay, coherence and cohesion. I also do not like making up titles, they never are able to say everything I want them to.
2. What would you go back and if you could?
I was not very happy with my title. At first it was Stingray Analysis and that was not very good. Then it was Everlasting Peace because those used to be the last two words of my essay, until I cut out the last two paragraphs. I might want to change my title to Amalgamate or The Sting of Fear, but those are not very good either. I would also want to continue to reread my essay trying to make the sentences clearer.
3.What is your essay about? (conceptual no plot.)
My essay is about connection. I often find myself to busy in life to take note of the things that are truly important. To bring myself back I talk to God, just say hi and tell her what happened during the day. I want to tell people that finding a connection to the life around you is very important because that is where peace is. People look for peace in all the wrong places, they think that Oh I will be happy if I get an A on this paper. I hope that my essay will give them another place to look.
4.What -if anything- was fu about writing and thinking about this essay?
I am very very bored with five paragraph essays, so I was ecstatic that we did not have to stick to the over used form. I had fun putting the stars to brake up my writing, I have always wanted to use them. The part that made the most fun was that I was interested in the topic, which will hopefully make it interesting to you. In school we are often forced to write about things that we don’t care about. For example, we had to write many essays about the Odyssey and I hated that poem from the very beginning, so I was never able to put heart into my essay. By writing about something that had affected me, I started wanting to work on it. I am now proud of my essay, which is not something that I am able to say often.
