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Do you have trouble writing?
Yes 68%  68%  [ 26 ]
No 32%  32%  [ 12 ]
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Zonder
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15 May 2008, 4:37 am

Rainstorm5 wrote:
marshall wrote:
My problem is my thinking is so non-linear that it's hard to get it down on paper. I can't just sit down and write a stream of consciousness like some people can. Everything has to be pre-thought out and deliberate.

I also notice that when I have an idea in my head it seems like it will only take a few sentences to explain, yet when I try to get it down on paper it's always much longer and much less coherent sounding than it was in my head.


Same here. As to your comment regarding stream-of-consciuosness writing - I tried it once during a lit class where the focus for the week was on James Joyce. I literally could not do it. My brain kept trying to force logic in a writing piece that was supposed to be completely abstract and illogical. I ended up writing maybe a paragraph and that was the first real 'F' I ever earned in an English Lit class.


I couldn't write stream-of-consciousness very well because I couldn't write fast enough to catch everything - then I ended up with a kind of edited-down approximation. I wasn't satisfied with it because it was definitely not the same as what I was thinking. Since I was frustrated, I gave up.

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15 May 2008, 4:51 am

I'm not sure of the context of the question:

When you say "writing", are you referring to the act of putting pen or pencil to paper, and then making the necessary movements of the relevant hand to form a kind of text proxy?

... Or are you referring to the process of transmitting thought patterns into text form, whether via pen or keyboard?



The physical process of writing causes me issues, in that I cannot do it quickly, and must always ensure that the letters are clear, sharp and concise... but expressing myself in text online is something I have been doing fluently for well over a decade now, and have absolutely ZERO problem with.
And while I wasn't exactly high-scoring in my English exams at GCSE level, I didn't score too low either (B for English, C for English lit)... as some things I was better at than others, clearly (and I rarely do well at things I don't like, as I tend to defy them).



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15 May 2008, 11:29 am

Always did. I could only write a few letters and then my hands would cramp. Teachers passed it off as laziness because I could draw so well.



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15 May 2008, 2:00 pm

I loved writing research papers my ideas just flow from my mind. During winter break I did a research paper before anyone else!! ! :-) I also go in with 1,000 ideas so if one topic doesn't pan out when it comes to finding research I have back up ideas.
:-) Sadly grammar is last so I have the mindset that I have to get my words on the paper/computer and I worry about commas etc. later which usually means having to reprint a 20 page paper to skim it for grammatical errors. :-) Oh Well. :-)