Essay writing: protip
It took me until senior year in high school to really figure out how to write essays, so imma just put it out there.
Keep in mind, this is just my method. And I find it to work pretty fucking well for me.
The first draft is mostly just word vomit. It's me writing out my train of thought for the essay. Starting in elementary school they say shit like "Just write whatever comes to mind! ^-^" personally that just got me to think about cheeseburgers for whatever fucking reason so it didn't do shit for me.
So instead of writing out whatever comes to mind, it's more of a train of thought. (I find this to seriously help me since I can never remember the thought train, due to my ADD)
Step two is figuring out your thesis statement, topic statement, or whatever the fuck they're making you put at the beginning. Normally the teacher says they want this fucker FIRST but it becomes easier once you've thought about your paper. This way your thesis actually fits your paper.
Step 3 is to make your paper more essay-like. You Make it so it flows smoother, is easy to follow, and so it's you know. An essay.
For example several of my first drafts contain phrases like "yo wtf", "I've got no clue what I'm talking about", "ummm", and other various shit. So you just take that stuff out, adjust the wording so it sounds more official, put it through Grammarly, and then turn it in.
Boom. Essay.
I did this for almost all my papers after figuring it out and suddenly I was asking my teachers if it was fine if I wrote more than the allotted word amount of 400-500 words.
In one of my classes we were told to write a page and a half about some book we read. Just about everyone complained because "it's sooooo loonnggg thooo" I just say at my desk for 20 mins typing up the first draft when I looked at my page count to see I had five (5) pages. So I turned to my teacher and said, "is it alright if we go over the page amount? I have five pages."
All my classmates who were around her desk bitching about the paper and trying to get her to shorten the amount of pages looked at me like I had grown another fucking head. Here I was, smallest kid in class, had barely even SAID anything to anyone.
And then they shared looks with each other and all asked me "Katei fucking HOW????"
In case you wanted to know, the teacher just said to bring it down to four pages if I could. I got an A on the paper and confused the everloving shit out of my classmates. So all in all it's a pretty good method.
