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Reflections About My Own Blog

I think that my blog served two purposes. It gave me a place to say things as well as share my work. I have read my classmates blogs and some of them comment on how they hope no one finds their blogs.(Brandon) I think that if you write it down and publish it online, then you should stand by it. Don’t be embarrassed by a moment in time that happens to “freeze frame” your particular thoughts and feelings on a certain subject. I have often wondered what would happen if the “post secret” blog actually gave names with those secret givers. What would happen to those people? As I sit in the dark, on my couch, I am blogging because it is required but I feel there is something more than that. I have stuff to say. I remember some famous person said “I had to scream to get their attention and now that I have it, the question is “what do I have to say?” I tried to paraphrases that quote, however, I may have completely changed it. The point is, now that I have a couple of people’s attention (obviously I have yours, Dr Allen, because you are reading this post) then I have to say something worth wild. Something deep and philosophical, right? Well, that’s not me. The one fear I have about blogging is that people will not like what I have to say, and worse, they will be vocal about it. I don’t care if people don’t like what I have to say, I just want them to keep it to themselves.

I think that the blogs are a great idea in general, as well as in this class. They can be both professional and personal. Tailored for one’s individual needs. For example, I have two personal blogs, plus two class ones. My class blogs are used to keep in contact with my professors as well as post my work online for my classmates to view and comment on. The viewing and commenting process is really great because I get feedback from others and then I can make the appropriate changes. My personal blogs are used to post pictures and writings for my friends. They are main viewers so I try to update it with pictures from our latest parties and funny videos I find on youtube and laugh or die.com. My other personal blog I actually created when someone made a comment on my “writing process” blog. Jim Groom asked me if I was writing a memoir on my blog, when he came across my memoir assignment I had to post. This got me thinking that I should start another blog and update it with my life in the professional world. Dr. Allen, as you know, I want my memoirs to chronicle my journey as a production assistant in Hollywood, so I created the confessions of a Production Assistant blog.  confessionsofapa.blogspot.com). I will use this blog to post “behind the scene” pictures of events I work as well as the latest chapters of my book. So I guess that is sort of a “productive blog” but for a personal reason. Kind of like Trent’s blog, “pinkisthenewblog.com.” His blog started as a college assignment and now it is his job. I would love my blog to turn into something like that. And I would have never thought about creating a blog like that until I got Groom’s comment on my writing process blog.

So check back Dr Allen, to see my progress. Tell your students in Colorado that they have to check it everyday and tell me how much they love it.

Upon examining my classmates’ blogs I found that each one had a different style. Some of the blogs, like Ashley M.’s title and tagline, “Writing Process: Putting some Elbow grease into my writing…ha” had personal touches that reflected a little personality into them. And Ashley needs to make hers different because she, Margaret, Kerri and Rachel’s all have the same templates. I think it is odd because there are so many different templates to choose. I was actually surprised how different each one was from the last. To make myself clear I thought that each one would be similar to mine. I figured that each of my classmates used their blogs to post their work and other required assignments that Dr. Allen gave us. I think that looking at my classmates’ blogs to see their work gave me a great opportunity to see what others are doing.

It was through my examining of others blogs that I was amused and in one case shocked. When I read Dave’s blog I found it typical. Until I read his memoir paper. When he begins to talk about a black Hamlet, I was taken back. The way he used stereotypes and what he thinks is black ebonics were mildly offensive. I understand that he wanted to stress the importance of going in a completely different direction with his introduction but I think that it was inappropriate. His was the only example I found of my classmates’ writings that I found surprising in a bad way.

Good surprises included Jules’ blog and her Tolkin infatuation. I knew she liked Tolkin, but damn Jules, I didn’t know you were in love with him. I first noticed that she had the picture of the Elves from the Lord of the Rings films. That should have tipped me off that she liked Tolkin, but then I noticed she referred to him in her postings. She really likes him.

Another thing I really liked about having access to others blogs are so that I can read what my friends have posted. I didn’t get to read Kelsey’s memoir because we were not in the same group, so I really liked having the ability to check out what she wrote without having to ask her for it. The reason I like this is because when people ask to read my work I always want feedback but am usually afraid to ask for it, just in case they don’t like it. So without telling her that I am reading it, I don’t make her self-conscious. By reading her memoir I learned about my friend facts that I don’t think I would have normally learned. I learned she was or is OCD, ADD and had some tough times in her life. Those are things I would have never known because they don’t come up in conversation. Her blog really let me in, so to speak, to see a different Kelsey.

Upon reflection I am happy that I took this class. I am glad that I got more comfortable with my writing, and I can see that my classmates are too. By looking at their pieces of work, I see what they are doing and that gives me ideas and sparks my own creativity. I think that the blogs are a revolutionary way to share one’s work and gather feedback about it.

What is a writer and how can we bring voice into a classroom?

The definition of a writer is complex. We can define a “writer” as someone who makes a living at writing, but then one could argue that any job requires writing in some aspect. Well then, a “writer” is someone who is published. Okay, then the accountant that writes up a report that is published and distributed through out the company is a writer by that definition. Fine, a writer is someone who is paid to be published and have others read their work for entertainment. Ok, so a screenplay-writer and journalist are both writers too. Yes, they are. That is ridiculous. I am having an mental battle with myself.

Let’s just focus and start at the beginning. To me, a “writer” is a person who uses their voice in the form of words to say something. (When I say voice I am referring to the Elbowian voice. The way an author writes.) That is a very broad term, I know, and extremely vague by nature but the definition of the term is open to interpretation. I would make an argument that anyone can be a writer if they use their voice to say something. The third grader is a writer when she writes an essay on the civil war in her own words. The science professor is a writer when he writes a forty page dissertation on chemicals found in the sewer. Musicians are writers when they write lyrics for their music. A government employee in charge of creating Standard Operating Procedures for a new program is a writer too. Although some may argue with me that SOPs lacks voice and therefore the author is not a real writer, that stems back to our different versions of the definition of the word “writer.”

I strongly feel that writing does not have to be made up entirely of voice in order to be considered writing, but it helps make writing better. The kind of writing that is emotionless I think lacks energy and heart of the author’s voice. If the author was not the slightest passionate about their writing, then way put it down? The best writings, to me and the general population, are full of character and heart. They have a piece of the author in them. That piece of the author is translated into the text through the voice of the author.

It is a difficult question to try to answer but here goes. What is a writer? As I have said before, a writer is someone who uses their voice to say something. Can two writers say the same thing? In theory they can, but the words and the voice will be different. I would argue that what these two authors are saying is different, however slightly that difference may be present, there is still a difference because they are coming from two sources. For example, both authors can be teenage boys talking about the soccer game they played earlier. The writing has the same content but different voices. I agree with Elbow in his theory that anyone who writes is a writer. I think society should start to classify writers. Some writers maybe classified as “newspaper journalist.” Other can be “screenplay or television writer.” And still more can be “writer of published novels.” I think that having a classification system would make it easier to use the term loosely. The people who write to-do lists or “thank you” cards can be classified as “normal, everyday writers.” Today alone, I have been a “normal, television, email, thank you card, and student” writer. Wow, I sound busy when you say that. So does this classification system offer society? It gives everyone the chance to be a writer. Does that take away from the conventional term “writer?” Should acclaimed novelists be lowered to the standard of a normal writer when asked what they do? “I’m a writer.” “Well, aren’t we all?” I think that everyone who writes is a writer. That simple. Elbow had it right, (no pun intended) if you think it and write it down then you are writer. Are you a good writer? Probably not, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is that you have taken the first step toward becoming a good writer.

So with Elbow putting the “ball in your court” so to speak with the whole idea that if you write it down you are a writer, can we teach writing in the classroom? Should we bring voice into the classroom? And if we decided yes, then how do we teach voice? These questions are interesting and complicated. Voice should be in the classroom, but I am not sure it can be taught. I think that having exercises, such as Elbow’s free writing, can be used in voice detection and development. I think that if students knew that they were writing in voice, then they would understand how to use it better. I think that without voice, writing is dead and without cultivating the next generation’s voices then what will writing become in the future? Empty and lifeless? One way to avoid this is to have students read great literary works. After this, they should invent an essay or a piece of writing based off of what they have read. For example, have ninth graders read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. After they are done, have them write an essay or letter pretending to be a character in the story. Make the students use their voice to give their character a voice. This exercise is based on how I read John Muckelbauer and his essay Imitation and Invention in Antiquity: An Historical-Theoretical Revision. The exercise is in practice of what Muckelbauer calls “imitation.” We teach students what good writing looks like by having them read great writing. We then have them try to copy this form of writing, but instead of having them copy verbatim, we should encourage them to develop their own ideas and their own voice through the imitation exercise. I think that through this modified imitation we can get to invention.

David Bartholomae would disagree with me on both points of what makes a good author and what “voice” should be. He thinks that if a writer has nothing new to say, then don’t waste the readers time saying the same thing other writers have said. His example of this is when a girl writes about her parents’ divorce. Bartholomae thinks that if she has nothing new to add, then she should not write. He would also say that keeping voice out of the academic world is the best way to write “academically” because academic writing should not have a voice. To Bartholomae, “academic writing” is the type of writing that lacks voice. It should be straight-forward and rooted in fact, not solely opinions and speculations. Keeping personal feelings out of academic papers allows the writer to present their finding without influencing how the reader will react. Elbow and I disagree with Bartholomae because almost all academic writing, even Batholomae’s, has opinion and speculation in it. Its how starting point the author uses to argue their point.

As Elbow argues, I believe that we can teach all students to be good writers. Through a variety of different exercise designed to help explore and build voice, such as free writing, we can teach students how to use their voices in all of their writings. And this includes academic writing. These students are the people who will grow up to be the next writers. Newspaper reporters, gossip columnist, screen writers, novelist, etc. They need to know what voice is and how to find theirs and that is way I think it is important to teach it in school.

Miller views the self as a photo of the that person on paper, in the form of text. All the outside factors are effecting the person in the picture. If the environment is hot, the person is sweating, if the environment is cold, they are shiverring. Change of clothes, change of attitude, change in environment, etc. Whether the amount of time was little, there was still a change. This is in contradiction to what Elbow says because Elbow views the text as a reflection of the self.  Imagine same person, same clothes, same  environment, different hat. The things that change in Elbow’s works are minimal but still existent. Miller is in line with Bazerman and his theory of the spot because they are similar in their argument on “snap shot.” The spot reflects the one moment in time when something was said, ie. the text of an author. Then, a couple days later that opinion may have changed, and the author could write another paper and it could be completely different. This goes in line with Miller and Bazerman but against Elbow who claims that you cannot change completely, just the part of you that is reflected in the text will have shifted.

I think that imitation is a nice way to learn about great writing, but, like Corbet, I think that if a student spends too much time studying and copying a certain author then the students may not develop their own voice, but a voice that sounds like the author channeled through them. They become a vessel for the “great” author. I think that Corbett wants students to know what is great so that they can be like the great works. and only through studying the greats can one learn to break the rules that confine them. Do i buy this? I think that as a student who was forced to study the great authors, it can be more confining then liberating. I have read the great authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, etc. and i found them to be boring and uninteresting. and to make matters worst i was assigned projects to write and talk like the novel or characters. Instead of developing my voice through projects that related to the novels, i had to write through the novels themselves.

I think Hashimoto reinforces Elbow and his idea of voice and the creative soul. Hashimoto says that Elbow thinks either you write with voice or your writing is dead. I’m not sure what Hashimoto would say about Bartholomae’s work. I think about it and I wonder if Hashimoto would argue that Bartholomae is wrong because Bart argues that enivonment is important, emotions are not, and that students need to study the great authors in order to be like them or unlike them. Hashimoto wants, like Graves and Elbow, for the students to learn to find their voice and have their papers full of emotion. He makes the comment that papers written by “committees” sound cold and distant becuase they lack one voice with emotions. Also, Hasimoto says that finding one’s voice and save them, and this implies that this process is free of education or the ability to learn the process which makes it “non-intellectual” which contridicts Bartholomae’s arguement about education and having a strong foundation in education and studies in order to be a good writer.

My Life As A Hollywood Pee-On
Confessions of a Production Assistant

Chapter One

Moving to Los Angeles right after graduation was a good idea. One of the best I have ever had. I had just finished college and was full of ambition and drive to succeed. I was determined to make it in Hollywood. Make myself a household name. Coming from a small town in Virginia I realize now that I was not fully ready for the City of Angels. I was naive but not ignorant about the city. I figured that I would come across some shady characters and those kind of people I would learn to avoid. Or for the most part learned from my experience with them. I wasn’t really prepared for the culture shock and overall mind blowing experience the city had in store for me.

But I am getting ahead of myself. I should first tell you why I want to work in the movie industry. Well, the answer is quite easy. I absolutely, unconditionally and annoyingly love movies. Good movies, bad movies, western to romantic comedy, and all the ones in between. It started when I was younger. I loved Disney cartoons. The way they could transport a child into another world where animals talked and carpets flew. My mom says that the first movie I saw in theaters was Sleeping Beauty. Shortly after that my grandma Walker gave me Disney movies on video. Since then I received a Disney movie from her every Christmas and Easter. This causes my collection to grow and over the years my sister and I had a complete Disney archive. As I grew up my love for movies hasn’t changed. It’s just, now I am allowed to watch more than cartoons. (Wink wink.)

When I was 11, I learned in school how movies began as written scripts and went into production to become films. It was at the age of 13 that I began to surf the internet looking for scripts to read. Since I couldn’t drive to Blockbuster to rent the movies, I would find the scripts to the movies I wanted to see and read them. I think it was then that I fell in love with screenplays and the movie making industry. One of my favorite things was to read a script of a movie that I had already seen, so that I could see how the director read the words on the page and translated that into visual medium. Some I could remember doing this to were The Fifth Element and Clueless. I would also read scripts of movies I had never seen and then made it a point to rent those when I went to Blockbuster. Two I can remember were Halloween and Cherry Falls (some scenes for this were filmed in Warrenton, Virginia, where I grew up.) Then I could compare what the director had done to what I imagined the film would look like.

It was shortly after I began reading scripts that I developed an unhealthy obsession with Hollywood. This started because I wanted to be a big player and I wanted to know who the other players were. I wanted to follow actors and the way they behaved on set, the way they behaved off set and everything in between. I would religiously check celebrity gossip magazines looking for actors on location, read the “behind the scenes” interviews and articles in film magazines like “Total Film” and “Empire.” I even developed a weird hatred of carbs. I began to “diet” so that when I moved to Tinseltown I was prepared to fold right into the masses with their trendy diets and alternative exercise regiments. I even took up yoga and smoking, which after four painfully slow classes and two cigarettes later decided those were two LA staples I could not partake in. I did however cultivate my caffeine addiction, which I knew would be an asset in the fast paced world of film-making.

But it was over my fall break that I took my first steps into the production side of film. I stayed up late one night and began writing a short film. It was originally an idea that my friends and I talked about over a two PM breakfast at iHop after a night of partying. It needed to get on paper and I took the liberty of doing it. After some phone calls the next morning I made plans to produce the film for my school’s film festival. It was a Public Service Announcement in the case of a zombie infestation on my college campus. It was full of government propaganda and anti soviet comments, which I thought were funny. Apparently the judges did not. I did not win the festival. Shit, I didn’t even place within the competition, which really bothered me because the other films that did place were ass. I’m not just saying that because I was mad. The others really did blow.

I moved passed the film festival and as my college graduation approached people began to ask that dreaded question that all college students must eventually answer. The one question, made up of eight simple words that strike fear in the hearts and causes anxiety attacks in those students who are not sure of the answer. “What are you going to do after school?” I finally just started telling people that I was going to move to LA, work in television and film and ultimately start my own production company and marry an Olsen twin. That plan ultimately grew into me spending my weekends reading scripts and drinking coffee at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Hanging out in Malibu mansions and coordinating multimillion-dollar movie deals over my blackberry while I drive down the Pacific Coast Highway in my black Mercedes SL. I mean, I had real simple goals. Easy to visualize (PCH, Malibu, car) and highly probable. Right? Well, maybe the Olsen twin fantasy was far fetched but the rest is possible. So, with those fantasies disguised as goals in my mind, I felt I had a “solid” plan and that was good enough for me.

But like most well thought out plans, mine hardly happen the way I wanted it too. (In the biz, we call that a “teaser.” It entices the audience into wanting to know more.)

It started two weeks after my college graduation when I had a meeting with a producer in Los Angeles. On Wednesday I drove to the production office, parked my car and checked in with the producer’s secretary. It went something like this.

INT. Production Office- 3:00 PM.
Doors to the elevator open. Standing in the corner wearing a blue shirt and tie is Joey Bersack. A recent college graduate and current job candidate as a Production Assistant at Universal Studios. Joey exits the elevator and walks the floor till he reaches a secretary typing at a computer. She looks up from she is doing.

Secretary
Can I help you?

Joey
Oh, hi. I’m Joey Bersack. I’m here to see Dave Pullano.

Secretary
Right, well, Dave has someone in his office now but he will be with you shortly.

Joey
Okay.

Secretary
If you want to take a seat I’ll let him know you’re here.

Joey
Thanks.

Joey sits down in a nice big leather chair. He picks up a Variety and starts flipping through it. He notices that Drew Berrymore’s production company just inked a deal with Paramount for another Charlie Angel’s film.

Joey (Over Voice)
Well, if this doesn’t work out maybe I could get on that project.

Secretary
Did you want something to drink? Water? Coke? Coffee?

Joey
Oh, no thanks. I’m fine.

Dave Pullano opens his office door and ushers out an older man. They are discussing the Lakers.

Dave Pullano
Okay, John. So I will see you next Friday for the game, right? I’ll pick you up, say 6:00?

John Mystery Man
Sure, sounds great. See ya later Dave. Bye Jessica.

Jessica (Secretary)
Bye Mr. Kent.

Dave
So, you must be Joey.

Joey
Yes. Thank you for meeting with me.

Dave
Oh, no problem. Come on in.

Joey and Dave enter the office and the door closes.

Fade to Black.

Okay, I have to confess. None of this really happened, but I was using “creative visualization.” I believe that if I could picture in my mind a positive, great interview that resulted in me getting the job then I it will become a reality. It is like creating the reality out of the fantasy. Which is exactly what movie making consists of. I wrote it as if you were reading a screenplay because I think that it was easier to read the conversations that took place in script form. Also, I thought it was interesting and creative, something new. Besides my life practically revolves around scripts and screenplays. They’re all I read besides the daily trades and gossip rags.

It was shortly after I started as a production assistant that I got the idea to write down my trials and shit jobs. I want to chronicle them in this book. Some are awesome, some are stinky (really, the smell was overbearing) but most of all of them are funny. This is my life as a Hollywood Pee-On. The confessions of a Production Assistant.

(Side Note)
What I had in mind for this work is that it will eventually become a memoir. I want to chronicle my first years in the industry because I don’t think there are enough production, behind the scene, tongue in cheek books for kids now a days. I want to get my experience out there for them.

Freshmen Paper Analysis

While reading the freshmen paper drafts I mostly focused on content and whether or not the author used convincing arguments and evidence (over personal assumptions) to back their thesis. I know that this assignment was a very broad assignment so that they could choose anything as a topic, but I think that some should have thought more about their topics.

For example, the author of the Cater in the Rye paper says that “the youths’ connection with the book was cause for great concern with parents and school boards around the country due to the mature subject matter of the novel.” This is nice, but the author used no evidence to back this up, so it reads like an assumption or for the most part “hearsay.” Along with this comment, I felt the overall argument was interesting but not enough has been document to prove it. It was a conspiracy theory disguised as a freshmen seminar paper. I would have liked to see more data. Maybe some quotes from interviews with the killer or some quote from the defense lawyer.

Following the content theme I turned to the author of “Funny Girls.” This was an interesting piece but I thought it was full of options. I know that it was an option piece overall but I thought that going deeper into the material for specific examples would have helped the author build a stronger case. Overall, the author takes the stand that teenage girl novels use comedy to explain and share embarrassing rites of passages. Also this servers another function of helping girls through the pains of growing up knowing that other women have gone through the same things, a sort of therapy for young women. Even though the author discusses examples of these comedic “traumas” they do not give their personal relationship to that example. Maybe they didn’t have one, but it obviously had some lasting effect on them. I wanted the author to explore that deeper. Maybe include some examples they did relate too when they were younger.

The other two papers were better with their content. Both were well written and used sources to back claims. In the paper about escapism I would have liked to see more examples of the Harry Potter sections but that was my only comment other than grammar and sentence follow problems. The final paper I edited was the paper about the young adults and the absent of adults caused them to grow up faster. I think that this paper interesting because it presented a new topic that I had never really thought about. I never thought of motivations behind Harry Potter and other young characters being forced to grow up and take on adult roles. This used several different sources and it was well written and thought provoking.

Overall, the papers were good. They had interesting topics, some of which needed to be focused into a more specific thesis. But still the topics were imaginative and new. Stuff I had never thought about and with a little more evidence and less personal assumptions I think these papers could get excellent reviews.

Muckelbauer claims that Farmer and Arrington “not only emphasize the apparent opposition between invention and imitation, but hint at the possibiltity that imitation itself is caught up in the very logic of appearances that structures this opposition.”(64) Also, “if imitation is somehow involved in producing appearances, we can justifiably suspect that the apparent opposition between imitation and invention might prove a good deal more complicated…”(64) I think that Muckelbauer making claims that the “nature of reality” is an imitation as well as religion and “theories of representational language and even representational political formations.” is possible. Great Britain’s government was based on America’s and the idea of representation is clearly an imitation of soemthing that already exists.

Entertain This

I am a huge fan of pressure. The pressure that comes from procrastination works miracles for me. Of course, I have to wait until the last minute to write this paper but I have two really good reasons why. The first of these reasons is that I don’t work well without a little pressure and I work best with a lot of pressure. I would argue that I could take coal and under the right amount of pressure make a diamond. (I mean this metaphorically with my writing assignments.) Most of my professors and some of the English major colleagues would argue against that statement but who cares? The second reason I put things off is due the fact that I usually forget to do them. Or at least one of them. I am working on writing things down but I am not making any promises. So steming from all the “almost missed assignments” and my years of perfecting my writing process I have decided to share my wisdom with you. This is my instructional “how to” write an amazing paper under pressure and still get a C. Hopefully get a C.

To begin I usually sit down and get comfortable. Your work environment is something to think about. Sit and write where you are comfortable. I write in my room or the library. Wherever you feel most creative, that should be your “homebase.” One thing I have to do when writing is listen to music. It is very important for me to have some music in my ears to help block out noise and distractions. Something pop, techno, or rap are the best for me. But I also like 80’s, classical, alternative, rock, and the occasional country song. Whatever you like, put on a playlist and label it “The Write Sound.” (Hey, that’s a good idea, I should take my own advice and do that.) Also, wear comfortable clothes, like sweats or jeans. Or wear nothing, if writing in naked makes you feel comfortable. Khakis and suits make people feel too serious and that can affect your creativity and exploration when writing.

Now that you are comfortable, its time to start the paper. The introduction I tend to leave for after the bodies have been written. For my body paragraphs I try to fill the space with insightful, clever anecdotes and information that I find important for the reader to know. But with my writing I tend to be lacking in the department of “academic support” so I try and use humor and personal anecdotes to off set that. I think that humor creates a “witty dialogue” flow in my papers, which is more interesting than the “fact after fact” boredom that is common with other writers. (For an example of this see a science book.) I know that sounds harsh, but the truth hurts. I want others to be entertained. When I write I feel like Russell Crowe from Gladiator when he screams at the Roman spectators, “are you not entertained?” I want my writing to be youthful and energetic. I want my papers to have a bounce in their step. I know that sometimes it can be overwhelming (like this one) but in other cases it is desperately needed. Also, I rely on my humor to overpower the fact that my papers tend to lack substantial information. So like a good magician I use misdirection to fool my readers into thinking that I have a better paper then it actually is.

One problem that my writing process my cause is that sometimes I find myself writing what I think is really great work and then I turn it in. I was thinking that I nailed the assignment but when it is returned I am not smiling. When I get it back and I get a D minus I am puzzled. I check the requirements and I realize that I forgot a huge portion of the assignment, such as making it connect with what we discussed about in class or how this particular thing affects the rest of the world. One way to overcome that fear (and avoid a lower grade) is to write the paper with the assignment requirements next to you so that you can check and make sure that you have everything you need in your paper. Just make sure you catch those mistakes before you turn it in for a final project.

To finish it all up I try to bring it all in and tie up the loose strings. I know that teachers in grade school said that the conclusion paragraph should retell the introduction and I take that advice to heart. I try and sum up what I have been discussing and send my readers off feeling fulfilled and wiser. But who really reads to the end on my work anyway? Not may people I can assure you. But that shouldn’t discourage you from doing what is expected. Sum up the main points of your body paragraphs and be done with it. But remember to finish strong. And don’t forget to write the intro. I like to open with a joke or interesting hook, summarize my bodies and then begin. And that concludes my tutorial on my writing process. I hope you have learned from this paper on how I write the way I write. Even though I may have done the assignment wrong, were you not entertained?

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