Writing the narrative was a blast, actually! To be honest, I don't feel like I'm much of a writer, but I kinda enjoyed painting a picture to illustrate my childhood experience. It took effort, but not in the way the research paper did. With the research paper, It was frustrating to constantly have to interrupt my train of thought to reread my source material and have to cite it. I was glad I did my citations as I went along, but it interrupted my thought flow pretty often. With the narrative, however, I was able to free-flow write out my ideas, recount my memories, then go back later to fix and improve what I wrote. What's weird is that I enjoyed going back to make revisions. The paper became less of a homework assignment and more of an art project for me. It helped motivate me to carve out an idea and polish it.
Oh, and confession: I actually took this paper to the writing lab. I cared enough about it to get some feedback, and I'm glad I did. The guy I worked with helped me to be more descriptive and show with my words rather than just tell. I think it helped my descriptive language and helped me find a nice way to craft my introduction/conclusion.
When I started writing, I knew which story to write about, but had no thoughts on the central message, change, or thesis to my story. As I wrote and tried coming up with a thesis, I thought the idea of realizing the clairvoyance would be funnier and a bit more of a twist on the whole "Intuition" idea rather than just describing a new-found fear of birds. It was a bit of a discovery writing the paper I guess.
Yeah, it's weird! Never thought I'd enjoy writing a paper like that. I hope everyone else who read it liked it too!
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