Reaction To Advice To Writers

  Advice, I am sure that I am not the only person in this huge world that has ignored some pretty relevant advice, only later to wish that I had listened in the first place. Advice about my writing. I read the list of questions that was listed for the assignment, actually four times to be exact, trying to figure out in my own empty head where I was going to go with this paragraph. I do think about several of those questions, plus many of my own, everytime I sit down to do an assignment for Eng 101. "Have I beaten it to death?", "Should I just erase everything and start over?","Do I really want to write about this today?" These seem to come up frequently. My own questions are the tedious, picky questions. "Is the punctuation correct?", or "Jesus, I think thats a humdinger of a run on sentence!"  Then I get a flash of the video, the five finger rules. I really enjoyed that video, and as I've read, I'm not the only one of your students to tell you so. Also, somewhere in that aging, and ever shrinking memory bank of mine I recall you telling us to just write. Just write, sit down and let your fingers do the work, (probably not exact words) but it stuck. I don't believe that I have ignored any of your advice since this class started a short week ago, but if you ever think so, I am sure that you will let me know!