Portrait of Myself as a Writer

I am a writer who thinks long and hard about what I want to write about before I can actually decide. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but you can only think for so long when the due date is arriving. After I finally decide a topic, it will probably take me even longer to compose my first sentence. I ask myself if I should start off with a question, but now that I’m thinking about it, that technique is quite overused. At least my opening sentence will be better than my transitions. Eventually, I’ll compose a pretty good opening sentence, which I will most likely change a few times, but at least I have it down on paper.

If I was smart enough or told to create an outline, writing the body of my paper will be pretty easy. Everything will flow onto the paper easily until I realize my paragraphs are choppy. Oh right, the transitions. “However, continuing, now”, nope those won’t work, I’ll figure it out later. I need to start my closing paragraph. How should I start it? I should probably put a nice transition there but I don’t know what to say. Ok, MP, let’s think. How can we create a paragraph that summarizes everything we just said without repeating ourselves. Well, that was easier than I thought, maybe just a little repetitive. Oh yikes, it’s 11:59, I need to submit to canvas. Phew, glad that’s over, time for bed. Oh yeah, that’s right, the transitions.