Have you ever had so many ideas for things you want to write about that you couldn’t get one idea to stay in focus long enough to make it coherent?
What is that called?
Because it can’t be writers block…I actually have the ideas…they are all there, running around like little wind up cars in my head…
Lullibell’s class is doing a kind of writer’s workshop right now. She has to write a paragraph every night this week about a chapter book she has read. Monday was a paragraph about the main character. Yesterday it was supposed to be about what makes the story believable.
She struggled a bit a the beginning of both of these because, of all things, the instructions were for a 50 word paragraph. This sounded like a lot to her. So I had to break it down for her…what is the first thing you need to do?…duh, pick a book….then what?…figure out who the main character is…you get the idea.
So Lullibell got the paragraph started but it took for-freakin’-ever because she kept stopping to count her words after each sentence! After she wrote for a bit and got frustrated by the less-than-fiftiness of it I asked her some questions and she was able to come up with enough words ideas to finish.
The second paragraph went better once she figured out what the assignment meant. Lullibell decided the story was believable because of how much she and the main character have in common…third grade, hating homework, a pesky little brother…and less word counting made the whole thing go much faster!
Today should be a piece of cake, right?
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September 17, 2008
wineymomma
5 responses to “In 50 words…”
monica @ transplanting me
September 17th, 2008 at 09:48
i would be so distracted having to use five oh words – isn’t that smart? five oh instead of fifty, two words instead of one. and then midway i’d get confused and start counting syllables so i would have to go back and restart the counting and end up saying nothing.
Funny…I did get caught up counting syllables…then she got really frustrated!
Beef
September 17th, 2008 at 10:10
Sounds like me
Oh, how well I remember…
C-Cubed
September 17th, 2008 at 12:54
DOGS!!!!! Mine’s homework includes letting the cats out to walk around and telling him that eating them is not acceptable!
And I get a shock collar. I think you use one on Lulu and some people in DHS might get a weee bit upset! 
Hugs!
Fairly certain the shock collar not a good idea for 2 legged children
ozatheist
September 18th, 2008 at 21:09
I’d also like to know what it’s called when you have lots of ideas in your head, but can’t get them down on paper (or screen). It happens to me all the time.
Drives me nutty! We should come up with a name for it!
sjsmart
September 20th, 2008 at 13:57
Blogblock! That’s what I call it. Blogblock.
Scott bought a shock collar when we got Max. I tried it out on the lowest setting (on myself) and promptly disassembled the thing. The dog collar is here with us in Baku, but the remote is in storage somewhere in NC…hehehehe!
That is a very good name for it and far more appropriate than what I had in mind! We had a neighbor in ND that used one of those things on his dog…I hated it! Glad the remote is “lost”