Beginning

I can simply say that I hate writing the beginning of a story or topic. Where do I begin? What words do I use? All the thoughts that run through my head and all the doubt will drive me up the wall. However, I know that I have to eventually get started with it and somehow make it all fit into the main idea. After pulling my hair out and finding sleep to be more important, I come back to the problem and sit there. Think of something emotional, I tell myself. This will cause all sorts of words to flow, words I would not have thought of before if I were treating the paper as an ugly monster that needs teeth to be pulled out. In my experience, emotions can cause opinions to surface and make words find their way onto paper. These words can form sentences that show a deep belief and confidence in what is being stated.
The emotions that are thought of don’t have to be positive they can be quite horrible. It really all depends on what I am writing. If I need to write about a movie based on the issues of El Salvador in the 1900s, then I will think of all the horrible events that help me relate to the movie. Of course, if I need to write about my perspective on whatever topic I want, than I am going to think about the wonderful taste of De Luche Ice cream and how much I would love to have that right now. Of course, I start running into problems when I need to write a dull paper on some analyzing perspective that needs specific examples of, oh lets say, the many figurative languages used in a certain paper and how the author convey his or her meaning. Papers with such topics really make me want to pull my hair out. Nevertheless, I still have to write the paper and get it over with (after a two hour nap). Thinking of emotions, however, still seem to help me with such factual papers. I can still find imagery to place in the papers to prove my point, and still jazz it up a bit. Just because the topic may be boring, doesn't mean I have to be. Other than the beginning of a work, I actually enjoy writing quite a lot (Even if I am not the best at it).