September 13, 2014
It Takes Practice
Over the past few
weeks, I ‘am becoming more and more discouraged with my writing abilities. It
takes me two, or more hours just to write 300 words. This is ridiculous, I ‘am
spending too much time on writing assignments. That I am neglecting my house work,
yard work, and most of all time with family and friends.
As I was reading through this week’s reading assignments, I was
intrigued with the article “It Takes Practice”. In the article, the author stated how she too
struggled in the beginning with writing, but that after time, discipline and
practice she was able to write with fluency.
In the article, the author challenged the readers to think
of some things they are good at, and how they were able to accomplishments these
things. I started thinking about my job,
and how we are required to put on your turn out gear and SCBA in less than 2
minutes. I remember how difficult this task was for me when I first started in
the fire service. After some time and lots of practice I was able to complete
my task in the allotted time.
I thought about the
time I played basketball team, we would spend hours every day practicing until
we were able to run plays with ease. This has got me to thinking, I am going use
the same mind set on writing. As I did with putting on my gear and basketball.
I am going to keep practicing spending time everyday writing, and if the author
of this article is right I should be able to write quicker and with more
fluency.
That is something people fail to realize with school work. We all think of it as boring, pointless assignments that are of no benefit except to get our desired grade on our transcript. But really like you said, its just like anything in life. The more we do the better we get at it. Keep up the work! It will get easier!
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