KFKD

I don't think it's just chance that we happened to have this assignment when we did, because nearly every one of the chapters that we read related to the issues I was having this afternoon while revising my paper. I definitely experienced the constant distraction she talks about in KFKD. This afternoon I suffered this kind of distraction before I even opened the word file on my computer. I was thinking about the most asinine things, and definitely nothing that actually pertained to my paper. The next chapter, jealousy, is definitely an emotion I experienced as I was reviving Brianna's paper. I always get that peer editing. I see something that someone else wrote, and like it better than what I wrote, and instantly want to find a way to either fix my own paper or sabotage the other person. The final chapter in this assignment talks about writer's block, which happened to me this afternoon when revising my paper. I laughed when I read the analogy, "starting at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal...(p.176)." I experienced this same situation while sitting at my kitchen table staring my laptop, feeling like I had absolutely nothing to write. So I suppose these few chapters of Bird By Bird delievered the same reassuring advice as it usually does, letting you know that your mental condition while writing is perfectly normal.