Malik 1 Zanali Malik Professor Guenzel ENC 1101-13 28 October 2013 Why Do I Think So Much When I Write?

Do certain influences affect the ideas or concepts that are included in my paper? My writing process is imperfect to say the least, but it does get the job done. I analyze my surroundings as if I am on a top secret mission that cannot have any mistakes. I tend to overfocus on what I am writing about but then I do not let my mind wander as much as it will like. This makes it look like my paper was written by two different people as if it is either black or white without any gray areas. I tend to lean on researching so once can say I use Porters concept of intertextuality more than my own ideas. Yet my writing can be opinionated with personal experiences and such just like a Republican arguing with a Democrat. Is the thought process intertwined with the writing process on a molecular level? The thought process can make or break the writing process with a good piece of literature and bad. What happens if the thought process is scattered and cannot get any ideas down? What if it is based on the environment, the mind, and the people around? Everyone has that distinct instinct that can tell when someone is uncomfortable and in our writing it can show that. When I write on my desk my writing tends to be more formal because most of the writing on this desk is for a scholarly discourse. I tend to focus more when I sit down on the very old desk chair with barely any cushion left on it. That seat provides a window that I

Malik 2 can peer into and grab ideas and swatting away all the nuisances that might interfere with writing. One can say it is just like tunnel vision. The desk adds a feeling of superiority and organization that can hopefully perform osmosis with the paper. That is just one environment that can change my writing. Laying down to text someone adds a sense of comfort which includes horrible grammar, and not editing it before it was sent which makes miscommunication. Somehow though, we still often text and chat on the web before we even have to write a scholarly paper so that means that writing affects us more because we do it quite frequently. Every environment adds to the literature it is affecting no matter how we look at it. The mind is a wonderful thing. It gives orders to our body which we live in and it houses our creative genius which allows us to write amazing papers. The mind is the most important part of the body because it controls the body and actually it where the writing, ideas, and outlines live in. The mind is a storage unit with billions and trillions of boxes always getting reorganized. This makes it very busy and hard to focus on things yet we still can when we try. The mind benefits the writing process 100% but it also becomes a hindrance 100% of the time. It swallows up every piece of information and analyzes it to the molecular level. This adds imagination and intertextuality into the writing process. This beauty can add the most vivid stories and crazy plots depending on how it feels. Feelings add to the characteristics of an author and it helps with the tone and mood of the literature. Something so strong is actually quite weak, it can allow its mind to be affected by certain feelings and get enveloped in it which causes major changes to the authors mind and body. It can be depressed, angry all the time, suicidal, schizophrenic, autistic, and impaired. Those few things could change the whole DNA of ones writing process. It tends to be more formal when I am on writing something on my desk yet I am casual and full of slang when I get up from it. It all ties in with the influence of everything on the mind. The influence of

Malik 3 the mind can add be the drive or the motivation of the paper like how the engine runs the car. The mind can make one write and write and write until you are sick of it. It will do that when we have a paper due the next day or when one is in a heated texting debate. The mind is the determination in a fighters eyes who keeps getting hit down but refuses to lose so he continues to rise and fight on. The mind controls many major key roles of the writing and thinking process and that is your motivation, your body, and your creative genius. The influence of others can change many things about somebody. It affects their body, mind, and sometimes the environment they live in. Other than the mind running the body and the body enjoying the scenery, someone elses influence can change all of that. It also can positively help the writing process by reversing the bad effects and eventually turning them good. The other persons aura can be effected for life based on someone elses affirmation on someones life and thus this cycle continues and shares a concept with intertextuality being all of your experiences that make you yourself, they are all bits and pieces of other people who absorbed other memories and the cycle continues also. The person can coach you and hone your literature skill thus making your writing process quite knowledgeable. One can be your literacy sponsor or literacy inhibitor. They add their own styles writing to your style of writing which changes and shapes the writing process we have. My literacy sponsors benefit my writing process repertoire with all the key insights they contribute yet I never had an inhibitor but I can consider myself one because I am so hard on myself for my writing which can impede the thinking and writing process. My writing process can be the best thing in the world or my worst enemy. Now you know four of the most major things that affect my writing process for the better or the worst. My desk will never allow me to get comfortable enough for casual writing and my bed will never be the

Malik 4 greatest supporter of formal essays since I want to sleep when I lay on it. I never text on my desk and I do not write formally on my bed. My mind houses all my thinking and creative process which makes it the weakest part of the body since it can be so easily swayed into betraying the author. Someones influence can change your writing into something beautiful or something really poor. It all depends of the sponsor you have and their creative genius helping yours gain knowledge to help shape the way you write and affects the other reasons indefinitely.