There Are Two Kinds of Writing
I enjoy the leisurely writing I do for this webpage, combining pictures and text to document my life and hates. There is no pressure and nothing at stake.
The same cannot be said for schoolwork, which is scrutinized and rated, and which is vastly more time consuming than any other type of writing I do, particularly when it involves expostulating on a subject about which I feel I have little insight, namely mercantilism vs. free trade, commodity fetishism, etc.
Don’t fuss, you’re a good writer and a curious mind. Just pretend you’re watching Frontline or Nova on paper. You can digest all those different topics and rehash it back to me with much long winded detail. You can do it!
[...] I remarked about the contrast between writing for pleasure and writing for school. At the time I was [...]