Sondra Perl Assignment

1.)
a.) As i looked for my original topic i wished to write about I noticed that many other things and ideas came into my head that I never would've thought about writing about if I hadn't have done this assignment, more interesting topics to say the least.
b.) I noticed that often times I would get extremely off track, or find myself "taking a different path" than expected. i would continue on these paths until they brought me to that road block or dead end, and from there I would either retrace myself back to the original thought street or make a new path off of my path I got lost on.
c.) basically what I did here was that I started writing, and didn't stop. Anything and everything that came to mind was put down on the sheet. Some thoughts were a bit ridiculous and I knew that I wouldn't be writing on them in anyway but I wrote everything down to keep everything sort of "flowing." If I were to monitor what I were to write down, I would start to concentrate too much and begin getting the road blocks more often which is exactly what I attempted to get away from.

2.)
a.) Before, I would think for about five minutes on what topic I could write the easiest about and stick with that even if I didnt really enjoy the topic; as long as it got done with the good grade and the fastest time, I would use it. With this form, where I would write them all down, it was different. By thinking about anything and everything to write, I foud that there are subjects and topics that I could write about that are both interesting to me and don't have to take as long. It made me sort of realize that not all writing should be done just to get it done but to instead sort of put some thought into it.
b.) Alot of the time I had some troubles with picking which topic was the best one to continue off of because of the amount of things I wrote down but I feel as if that only made my center of attention and gravity stronger than when it was before hand.
c.) I didn't feel much of a path myself. It gave me a bunch of different questions to ask myself which i used to its advantage and learned from them and narrowed by topic to the one word.

3.)
I enjoyed this form of writing a whole lot more than any other different way. I felt more connected to my topic and learned that by keeping the opinion open minded and knowing the topic could change at any second really helped me find the strongest thing to write about. I learned more about my writing by having the writing be more relaxing istead of a stressed thing I just had to get done before class. I approve.