single life verses married life

Writing has always been a real challenge for me. Although I consider myself to be a good writer, there are still many areas in the writing process that I need to work on so that I can continue to grow and prosper as a writer. One of the biggest hurdles that I face as a writer is devising a good thesis for my topic, a thesis that is interesting, clear, and sticks to my main idea. When, “Brainstorming” for possible ideas or topics for a paper I’m writing, my mind either goes blank, as if I suffer from, “writers block” or my topics are just too broad and don’t make sense. I also have problems with main points and sub-points. Writing complete sentences can be a real challenge for me. Hence, I’m not really good with subjects and verbs. I have a problem making subjects and verbs agree when writing a sentence. I usually tend to forget to insert either a subject or a verb or an independent clause when writing sentences, thus resulting in a fragmented sentence or a run-on sentence.

Another problem that I have is using punctuation marks correctly when writing sentences. For example: I know that a period is used to end a sentence or to signal an abbreviation, e.g. a.m., p.m.. It’s the exclamation points, apostrophes, and comma’s that get me. I’m not sure exactly where to place them or how to use them properly in a sentence so that my sentence makes more sense. There are still many areas in my writing process that need improvement if I want to continue to grow and