Ellen's+Paper+1+Reflections

I had difficulty writing this paper because I have never had to write a paper dealing with video games and how they affected me throughout my life. I first got started by writing an outline of how each paragraph was going to be set up. Then I wrote out each paragraph on paper then I added sources in later. I then typed up my paper and normally whenever I type up my paper I find grammar errors or wording mistakes that I did not find before. Whenever I write papers I like to be in a quiet space but I need to be able to spread out, I like to see all drafts that I have worked on so I will sometimes spread out on the floor or I will find a large table to put all of my works on. The challenges I faced while writing this paper was I have never written about video games so it was a new experience and I did not really know how to approach it. The parts that came easily to me were telling anecdote, and writing about how video games are or are not considered art in my mind. I wanted to be an art major and I was in AP art in high school so describing art came easy to me. The most difficult part about writing this paper was putting in the sources because I have never worked with video game bloggers as my sources, so it was challenging for me. My advice to people who are doing this type of writing is to do it in chunks, if you do each paragraph one at a time you will find it easier to accomplish this paper at a whole. I did not use any great websites that would help someone write this paper just because they were not reliable sources. If someone is having difficulty writing this paper I would suggest that you write a pre-draft on paper so you can see the paper as a whole and can easily make changes to the paper.