Since we're being honest here...

I do my weekly essays two nights before it's due, or the night before it's due. The process is: read the prompt, read the poem/story/whatever, TRY to see how it goes with the question, then I just contemplate on what to write about. Writing a thesis statement is probably the hardest thing for me. Another thing is we cannot use first person, which is also hard for me. Those are my problems. ANOTHER thing is, sometimes, these essays don't even reach 3 pages. Once it's explained already, there's nothing more to say; and a lot of times, that's done in a page and a half to 2 pages. I agree with Buzo when she said they should be every TWO weeks. It makes life much easier, you know, unless you want to kill us all.

Ciera.