freewriting, pt 1

i know i've said this billions of times before, but i really want to improve my writing skills. and no better way to do that than to just set aside ten minutes everyday to just write random shit. so here it goes.

freewriting--

i hate freewriting. i remember that this task used to be assigned to me as early as second grade. 'just write whatever you feel like writing, children' my teacher told us. whenever i looked at my black sheet of paper, i could not produce any words from my pen. i always drew a blank. what should i write about? i asked myself, time and time again. i would end up writing about nothing--the weather, my immediate thoughts (what should i write about?), my daily events--just very boring shit.

the last time i was asked to freewrite was in maaza's writing the essay class. except then, we were given a flower to write about. of course, i copped out and resorted to writing a haiku about flowers, since all i could do then was draw a blank. i couldn't think of anything meaningful to write about. i figured that my writing would not stand out amongst my class's writing and i needed to think of something different, hence the haiku. who the hell writes haikus about flowers in a writing expository class?

now, i have officially run out of free writing material. i am drawing many blanks. fuck. oh well, baby steps, right?

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-andy