Searching for information....and my lost motivation

So, writing this first essay has been interesting. I knew I was in trouble when the class spent some time in the school library researching ideas for what we were going to write about. My paper is completely satire, with some descriptive/informative information, and I have an argument in there somewhere. Since my "solution" would be awesome in the real world, it is likely to never really happen, so finding the right information to use on the internet was a little strange. I am writing about creating a device that will shock rude people, so piecing together an invention to do this meant searching about tasers and stun guns. I searched for dog shock collars too, and boy is there a lot of argument for and against using those. I was stuck for about 20 minutes reading one website that was nothing but posts from people slamming other people for what they thought was right/wrong with shocking your pet. I looked up how garage door openers work, and that was actually interesting! Then I wanted to research societies and customs that used pain as a form of punishment. You would not believe the suggestions Google comes up with when you merely type the word "pain" into the search bar!! It's really funny. After I sat in front of the computer for an hour, it occurred to me that my search history was very weird, and whomever sat at the computer next and saw all the links in the history might question what the heck someone was doing before them. I thought it was best to clear the history, just to keep things school-appropriate!

I worked on research a little more throughout the week, and wrote all kinds of ideas in my head, but nothing really on paper. I sat down Sunday morning, and decided I would start to write. Boy was it hard to just come up with my first sentence. I watched football,did some laundry and thought to myself that I was start writing then too, but 3 hours later, it hadn't happened. I knew I had to start, and felt I had enough information to really have some good pages, but I just couldn't find the motivation. Finally, after supper was done, other homework done,all the Facebook games were played and all the other things I did instead were taken care of, I made myself open Word. It was all over from there! I started writing, and in about 2 hours, I had almost 3 pages!! At that point, I quit and went to bed. Monday night, I got home from school, and started right in writing again. At 12:30, I typed my last sentence, 7 1/2 pages full! It sure did feel great!

Now, I know this is just the rough draft, and I am sure I'll get lots of suggestions for changes in our peer to peer review tonight in class, but just knowing that I have the general idea makes me feel like I am ahead of the game, and will get to enjoy a little bit of a break over Fall Break next week...