Outlines

Outlines have never been something that I enjoyed doing or ever wanted to do. Going to all that extra work to eventually write, in my opinion, what I would have written without one seemed pointless. I’m sure a lot of other people feel the same way, they would rather just sit down and write and whatever happens, happens.

As time goes on though I am beginning to truly understand their worth. I still have yet to put one into practice for an assignment but any in-class work has shown me their value. Our class last Tuesday had me begrudgingly realizing what I could do with a proper outline. All my ideas were laid out before me and it seemed as though I had started to piece together an essay with very little strain. Rather than close me in I felt like everything was beginning to become clearer.

The problem is finding the willingness within myself to do the extra work in order to give my writing a better foundation. I’m sure that if I start putting It into practice I would find a lot of improvement in how I write but there is something I like about just letting my ideas flow out from my fingers. I don’t want to stifle any sort of creativity that I have, which is hard enough to find as it is. I think I have to look at an outline as having a more constructive creativity and as something that will help me in the end, regardless of how I feel about it.