Adventures in Paper Writing

I know it seems impossible but schoolwork has actually taught me something. Or my creative writing taught me something about schoolwork. I'm really not quite sure and if I try and figure it out I'll end up getting into a chicken vs. egg thing and I don't want to go there. The real point is that somehow, luckily, working on my writing process creative pieces has enabled me to write stronger college papers. Right now I'm working on a paper and I'm not quite sure where the thesis is yet. However, like not knowing the full plot I have decided not to care. Instead, I'm writing all these half-baked paragraphs that don't quite make sense and have ideas that may or may not make it into the final product. Much like   my recently revisited Guardians notebook, some things will stay and some won't make the final cut. I think that this is truly the beauty of all writing. It's not a formulaic process, but rather an organic flow of ideas that are pruned rather than suppressed at the get-go. And it's amazing how things are varying as Biblical feminism, American literature, and dragons and fairies all start from the same place and undergo the same transformations.