Reflection on timeline

In class today we had to get in our groups and make a timeline about the vlog I chose for my descriptive essay. We started off with three main points in the timeline. The points are the beginning, the middle, and the end. The starting point of the timeline is supposed to represent the beginning of the vlog. The middle point is the minute that lies in the middle of the vlog and the ending point is the last minute of the vlog. We had to write a single description of the vlog at each one these points. Then we added points between each of the first three along with a single description. This activity was to help us develop the main points we would then turn into our paragraphs by elaborating on each point. This timeline helped a lot to better organize my essay and to come up with topic sentences easier. It also helped to give my essay a better flow with what was actually going on in the vlog. I often have trouble trying to start off an essay, even a paragraph for that matter. This activity helped to put my main topics in a more simplistic yet very organized format. Once I had the main topics, all I had to do is just elaborate on each topic by adding more details and descriptions of each of them. This would have been more difficult if I had just went right into writing the essay with out any basis on what I was doing. Another thing that would have helped with me writing this essay is to see an example of a complete descriptive essay. I find that when it comes to writing it is easier to see examples of what is expected in the essay. With any other topic it would not have mattered but I have always had a hard time writing. Not really in coming up with ideas , but in organizing them so that they flow together. Once I can get beyond that barrier writing would be a lot easier for me and I wouldn't procrastinate when it came down to it.