Side comment: The assignment was to explain your method of writing a paper. Terrible topic but it turned out fun!

In school, you are given topics and it is your duty to write about them. As a student that cares about your grades, you must go and pound out your writing assignment and pray that what you write is not offensive and yet has something of interest within it. You might as well take into account that there is always going to be someone with a paper that is excessively long and someone with one fantastically short. One or two persons in your class have already read the dictionary from cover to cover and sleep with it. A few persons will not start writing their papers until midnight the day before the paper is due. They will turn in their papers in a glazed and sleepily drugged stupor as their head lulls from side to side and drool faintly trickles from the side of the mouth. Out of those few, some will always do better than you and will claim to have put little to no effort in it even though you made ten points lower and had struggled for days to perfect it. It well, just didn't suit the teacher's fancy and you're left out in the cold with aggravating red pen marks all over a paper you had just poured your heart and soul into. But don't despair! There is always another time, if you are brave enough, to risk cold-hearted stab in your already wounded heart. You must have hope for that 'A' and to make it easier you can fall back each time on the same old trusty steps that you use each time. Well, actually they aren't your steps, they are mine, and they might help you in your crusade to write the perfect paper - if at all possible.

First is the hardest step of all, just starting. I've found this is my supreme weakness and it only makes the situation worse when the topic that you are ordered to write upon is utterly boring and leaves you incredulous. The best thing to do is add a twist to your assignment or do the exact opposite of the common simpleton and go to the utmost extreme. If the topic is just incredibly inhumane to anyone with a life of decency then write about hobgoblins, devils, and corrupt fairies and say that its all a metaphor for the initial topic at hand. Considering that many persons enjoy wasting their time delving into sentences that have the most minimal of importance, they could possible believe your story. They might possibly even rave about it and give you a tall, cool blue 'A' rather that the red crusty dribble that wracks its bedeviled edge upon you typed specimen bringing it to ruin. By doing this, you stand out and are 'special' and that counts for something, right?

Now, that you have that superior scheme to riddle the teacher at hand, you can begin step two. That is coming up a 'path' that your paper can walk upon. By saying this, I mean plan out the first paragraph with relation to the last, and be sure and have gutsy middle paragraphs to win the hearts of the most critical of spectators. It helps to come up with a small layout. Carry a wrinkled piece of paper and a black pen in you back pocket so that when you are inspired you can immediately relieve yourself by transferring it to paper. Sometimes all you transfer in a simple sentence - but oh the meaning in the sentence! It can be used as your thesis statement, as something for your thesis statement to grow from, or as the idea that shapes that unique path or 'road less traveled' if you were feeling particularly witty. Wouldn't that 'make all the difference?' Of course it would.

Bravo! You now have pretty smooth sailing. You just have to write it down and develop, in other words, step three. I say forget pen and paper because they combine into a battlefield or crummy ideas, and scratched-out words, phrases, and paragraphs. Go straight to the computer! This also cuts down on the drawings of bunnies and other cute furry animals that you might tend to draw in the margins of the notebook paper. Refrain from listening to metal bands and rock! I speak in my experience. When I do this, I find myself at ten-minute intervals loosing track of what I'm doing and simply staring at the tempting shapes of interest in my room. (This also leads to doodles.) By typing on the computer, you also have cleaner and much for friendlier interface than the notebook with its rings that always tend to crowd the hands in a hapless attempt at not allowing us to use up all the empty space on the back sheet of paper.

Avoid the temptation to take part in the mischievous hanky panky and concentrate on making sure you followed the basic rules of grammar and spelled the words appropriately. This is step four and the one where most tend to 'loose it' and say an exaggerated 'FINALLY.' But you are not done silly! It is important to go back and read over it and even possibly force the fate upon a relative that is more compliant than your brain. A second opinion is always a breath of fresh air and may have a few things to say about your paper.

Smiling is an exercise you may now take part in. Not just any smile, but that smile of satisfaction and contentment that you get after you have completed a paper. A smile too that you hope you can keep on your face without excessive will power when you receive it back from the teacher the following week. By following the four steps, it is my fervent hope that you will take more pleasure and possibly find more success in creating your paper. Already, I am undoubtedly sure that you are on your way to being soaring success! Take the hard knocks with stride and know that it can is a learning experience at the very least but also don't take it all to heart because the other party is not always right. They might possibly be biased, completely wrong, and convoluted! I wish you the best of luck in your aspirations for your future assignments and have faith that you will complete your very own creation of the ideal.