Why Is English So Easy To Speak, But Harder To Write?

I haven't written a blog in forever, but that's only because I have been taking my summer class since the 20th of June. As of last week, my class ended, so I am free to write again. It was really difficult to keep a blog when you have to read a 100 to 200 page children's novel while thinking deeply about the author's intentions and messages within the text, so basically I was tied up trying to get an A (and I have achieved my goal). Yet from this class, I believe I will learn to never take another children's book lightly, because the literary concepts I've learned can be applied to absolutely everything.

I had to write about 1,000 words each day for each novel we read. It was not an easy task, especially since I am a careful writer and was limited to certain topics that we had to apply to the assignment. Sometimes, I felt as if my brain was going to explode from trying to think of every possible topic to write about in my post and journal (600 and 500 hundred words respectively). Miraculously, I managed to finish almost everything a day early, which became the strategy to my success. However, it did manage to ruin my sleep schedule and my bedtime ended up around 4 AM Sundays through Wednesdays.

Yet I must say, writing almost every day for four weeks was good practice for my writing career. Now if I wasn't so lazy now, I would be continuing this practice right now. Of course, attempting to overachieve (in truth, I only had to write 500 to 750 words each day) completely tuckered my mind out. Therefore...I'm relaxing by sleeping in and playing video games until my brain finally rests up. So here I am, writing this blog.

Even though I am done with the class, though, I think I want to read more children's books. I've realized that our booklist had a lot of books I had never had the privilege to read until now. Hence, I will make it my goal to finish 100 children's books before I head back to the university for the reason that I want to apply my class a little further than expected. Maybe I'll even blog about what I read just for the heck of it.