Ideas that never seem to stick

Before I started English 1101, I wrote down a list of different outcomes that I wanted to achieve by the end of the semester. I wrote mostly broad outcomes like to learn how to write properly and speak correct grammar. After a few awful and good essays, I realized that I could not convey my ideas and thoughts effectively when writing. It was frustrating when I had a brilliant idea but could not find a way to write it on paper.

For instance, we were told to write a memoir for our first English paper, the first idea that I thought about was my boarding house experience. It was the most vivid, remarkable and long lasting memory I had. I could think of a 1000 different things to write about my experience. The question was how was I going to write it in a way that the audience would clearly understand. That was the question that seemed to even prevent me from starting the essay.

I had read some autobiographies before. Although these autobiographies did not focus on a particular aspect of their life, yet these writers were able to convey their thoughts and experiences so vividly that you were actually think you were experiencing it yourself.

So I asked myself what the problem was. I discovered I was not reading and writing enough. Although I may not be able to do enough leisure reading, but writing Blogs seemed to be effective in improving my writing skills and it is fun to do also