Alison as a Writer

How I view myself as a writer isn’t exactly the best. I don’t believe I am a good writer and I am very scared to do my first paper. I’m not sure what I want to do it on, but probably an issue that not many people have heard of. I don’t want to do an issue everyone already knows about, because in class Stephanie said that we shouldn’t do that. I agree with her because, how would you truly capture the attention of your audience, even if you had a good paper, if they heard the same shit your writing over and over again. When I write my paper, I want my audience to be very curious to what I have to say. I don’t want to capture their attention in the first part of my paper, but then have them think in the middle of the paper that its boring and they want to quit reading it. I truly enjoy writing, but not so much in the form of a paper. I’m very self conscious as to how it might turn out. I don’t want to work as hard as I can, but then get a bad grade, and have everyone think my paper sucks. I would rather write for pleasure. Like stuff for me, like poetry. I like the English class I am in, because everyone seems pretty nice. Its a lot more comforting to be able to feel like when I have to write a paper, that I can write it without receiving criticism from others. Not like I would get my feelings hurt, but you know. So that’s how I feel about writing and I am quite nervous for my first paper.