Real Writing

Usually, whenever I write, no matter what it is about, I need to find my muse. Last year for my research paper, my topic was about the sexism and racism in Disney films, specifically The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I started off by watching the movie and after I realized I wanted to focus on the characters, I made my topic. From there I watched the movie again with a whole different approach, writing notes and then looking up a few facts that would back up what I had seen. For a research paper, I take a different approach than when I write other papers. I don’t free write like I usually do, but I did write notes in the margins of facts I wanted to add or topics I wanted to elaborate on. Truthfully, my prewriting draft was a lot of arrows, scribbles, and notes that only made sense to me. My first draft wasn’t much better. It was very messy, because I went through with my red pen and destroyed my work. Even when I write papers that aren’t as long, I still have to find a muse. From there, I take the free writing approach and I am able to go back and clean it up a bit. I like doing that kind of writing instead because it’s easier for me to just continue with a thought and not have to worry about run on sentences, grammatical errors, or different words that would make it sound better. This kind of thought it pure, in my opinion, and it is my favourite to do.