Writing can be fun!

Yes, even it's a school assignment. I realized it myself after attending Tiffany Debicka's writing seminar last week.

Surprisingly enough, writing of a big academic paper can be described by four simple words: exploring, planning, drafting and revising. The teacher introduced to us all these steps in a very simple way. Before the seminar the whole process of writing of a big paper was a great unknown for me. But thanks to Tiffany, it doesn't scare me anymore.

And would like to mention two things from the seminar that impressed me most.

The first one is freewriting. I totally liked it! Actually, I knew about this technique before, but for some reason I've never used it. But from now on, I surely will. Honestly, it's such a fun to put down everything that goes to your mind without revising it. By the way, recently, I read an interesting article about freewritng. It claimed that while writing we use to revise different ideas in our minds before putting it down. However, often we dismiss some brilliant thoughts just because at the first glance they looked inappropriate. So, all these good but unorganised ideas flee from our head and never came back. Freewritng can help us to avoid it.

 And the second thing I particularly liked is the movies we discussed. Frankly speaking, I've never been much into the movie industry. I'm definitely "a book person". I prefer to create the images of settings and heroes by myself rather than give this privilege to filmmakers. So, from times to times during our classes I was like, "What they are talking about?" However, I must admit, that a lot of movies I heard about on this seminar sounded very interesting. So, I guess, I have to catch up :)