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 Writing coaching has been somewhat difficult for me. It's hard to give feedback to students whom I have never met, and haven't told me much about themselves through email. I think that it's important to know who you are coaching so that you understand what they might need more/less help with. I haven't had a ton of success with students replying to me or sending me their work. Although this is a little frustrating because it will help me once I become a teacher, I completely understand. It's an extra task for these students, and I remember what it was like being in high school. I probably wouldn't have sent something I wrote to a college student either. I think it's important to be understanding, above all else. I think that, going back to an older reading, they need to understand that it's perfectly okay to not have something written perfectly at first. Bad writing only paves the way for improvement! I think that the stress of writing "badly"

 1. sit down 2. open tiktok, twitter, instagram... no! back to writing! 3. kinda hungry... make food. 4. okay, writing starts NOW. 5. open tiktok, twitter, intstagram... 6. oh my god it's due in two hours! 7. write anything and everything you can to get to word count as coherently as possible. 8. submit. 9. why didn't i do well?! 10. repeat process. ...I'm kidding! ...kind of. I love writing for fun. However, writing is not always something that is used for fun. Most often, I would say, it's not. Writing is academic and isolated, at least while you're in college, it is. I think that the main thing I struggle with in writing is the overwhelming feeling of "this has to be perfect." So much so, I go to extreme lengths to avoid it. This is why I loved the Spandel reading this week. "The Right to Write Badly" is honestly something that everyone should read. Often, people struggle with "writer's block" or the paralyzing fear of writing it