Monday, September 21, 2009
Generating essay ideas.
Generating an idea to write about for the personal essay assignment was difficult at first. When the assignment was first assigned, I had no clue what to write about. Of course this puzzled me because of the fact that this was a personal essay, which meant that I could write about virtually anything meaningful that has happened to me. This made me question if my life was actually so plain and dull that I couldn't even think of something meaningful from it to write an essay about. Then I realized that I had more to write than I thought. It wasn't that nothing in my life was meaningful. I realized that most of the things that happened in my life had tons of meaning in them to me. Everything had happened to me for a reason, and has taught me a ton of things about life. After some thinking, I finally had a list of topics to chose from, contrasting the empty one I had when I started.
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I think that's a fairly common feeling, that nothing *important* enough happened to have something to write about. One way to help with this is to read some personal essays, see what others found to write about. Everyone deals with issues of family, friendship, work, making moral decisons, deciding what's important and not important in one's life, defining yourself as an independent person, and so forth. Glad to hear you were able to come up with a list after some thinking.
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