My Goal

For my essay I am revising the very first blog post we were assigned—the one explaining our writing process. In this revision essay, I expanded the topic slightly, and I am writing an essay called "How Non-Writers Write".

It isn't too big of a topic change, as my writing process that I wrote about originally is definitely the writing process of a non-writer, but I am rewriting the entire thing from scratch. (It still counts as a revision essay, though, not a new essay, right?)

My goal with this essay is not simply to get a good grade. I would be lying if I were to say I would have written this essay if I were not required to for school, and I would be lying if I were to say the grade I get on it doesn't matter to me, but for the first time I actually somewhat care about what I'm writing about.

My mission is to show what writing is like for those whose mission and inspiration is only to get a good grade. What it is like for those whose brains just don't work the way that writers' do. I want to raise awareness. The fact that this is an essay assigned for a writing class is important.

I'm a non-writer. As a result, writing is a special kind of torture for me. Even when I am inspired, I hate every bit of the process. Especially in a writing class, I'm not sure many writers are really aware of the struggle that people like me are forced to go through in class and outside of class. I'm a math guy, and I know that I don't understand as much as I would like the ways people struggle with math. I know I would like to find out that kind of thing from those people. So I am doing it for what I struggle with.