How I Write

When I write I don’t consider myself very ritualistic. I will have YouTube and espn.com open along with my paper while I search for the motivation to begin. I’ll just be clicking along on the internet and a thought will hit me and the floodgates of writing are let loose. I can generally write about a thousand words before I begin feeling like I have writers block. At that point I rock back and forth in my chair—more commonly known as teetering—a few times. If nothing comes to me I will set the paper down and go waste time doing other things. I feel like I have these fidgety rituals because I’m ADD. I also have a Rubik’s Cube I will do and scramble repeatedly until I feel like starting again. It’s all part of my ritual. My best ideas usually come when I am thinking about the various things I need to do for homework that evening when walking home from practice at night. I’ll begin thinking about the paper and ideas will just start coming to me. The only thing that traps me from writing used to be video games, but since I rarely if ever play video games anymore that is no longer an issue. My new distraction comes from fantasy football. I had never done a league before, but now I feel like I waste more and more time every night on it. In the future I probably won’t change much about what I do, but if I had to I would try the rotten apple trick; after all everyone could use a little bit of stress reduction.