The memory of writing for an assignment has always been a good one. I love to write with a particular purpose and the idea of dissecting argumentative expression is just like taking a friend's new car for a spin without any strings attached. When I write I have some very key elements that attract my focus to the blank paper; direction, structure, and imagination.
I am a very bad story teller. My lack of direction when I talk means that I can keep an audience focused about as well as I can call a woman's age; a game that I don't even dare try anymore. This isn't an obvious fault of mine because I will never pass on an opportunity to speak in front of a group, crowd, or team. This is very different when I write because I find a direction, just like a GPS, and I stick with it even though it may be a long or unsettling road. At some point in anything that I write a specific map can be found, documented, and found again in nearly every document that I have tied to my glorious name.
I love to read to my son as a small part of the structure that he has in his life. He has suffered through every management, leadership, business, and religious book I can get into my well-worn hands due to the structure they give to me. Unfortunately, his two-year-old brain seems to absorb only the first few well-placed and attention-grabbing sentences before he falls sound asleep. I, however, always continue on because of the well-structured and attention-grabbing chapters that hold my minds-eye like the human nose to the scent of a bag of buttery popping popcorn. I try to capture new-found good structure and apply it to my work. This is usually found in the intense and intentional repetition of key words that tie to the subject matter covered. When I write it usually involves totally restructuring and laying out a new plan several times before I find a way to put into words exactly what I think. I like to keep the structure of my work fairly obvious to the reader, audience, or group. This is a key I have found keeps me focused and poised to succeed.
I feel that imagination is a huge part my thought process when I write. Imagine being stuck in a room full of gooey, warm, chocolate-chip cookies fresh from the oven. Now imagine being stuck in a room full of gooey, warm, chocolate-chip cookies in the pet-grooming shop with dog hair covering the floor, chairs, tables, and sink. The cookies suddenly drop far from being appetizing or even gooey and warm. I have an endless imagination with multidimensional capability. This always brings out my love for the opportunity to write about a memory, a gesture, a detail, a micro-portion of a detail and include all of the aspects of the image that is fully focused in my mind. I use my imagination in every detail of writing and speaking. I gravitate to the author that does the same because I also read with my imagination. I step into a story, whether fact or fiction, and follow the road to the end.
To me writing is like a conveyance into another world which accepts me without the slightest negative look, gesture, or sound. In this world I can express what I could have said, the story I would have told, the picture I should have taken. Writing is always good to me because I put into it the passion and pride that draws me back to expression through direction, structure, and imagination-the keys to my success.
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