Graf 5

I've thought a lot about the i-search paper and what I want to discuss, but that's not the assignment, so I will give my reaction to brainstorming instead. When my son was younger, it was called storyboarding, which is basically the same thing. My son would make a circle and put a topic in the circle and then make other circles and attach them to the primary circle and write related words. I guess the difference between brainstorming and storyboarding is with brainstorming, you throw out random words to see what sticks and with storyboarding, you already have the random word; you just see what other random words will support your subject. Boy, am I glad I don't have to write everything in the third person. Anyway, I digress. With each method, the outcome is the same. But for me, it doesn't work. I would rather think random thoughts and see what sticks. It just seems that writing down random words of interest is too chaotic; I would rather deal with the chaos in my mind. Putting the chaos down on paper gives me too much overload, too many things to think about. But that's probably the point, think about a lot and settle on one. In thinking about what I want to talk about when I start writing my paper, I lay in bed and thought of various topics. How about the lifecycle of the sardine? Then there was the topic of legality versus morality, in particular how it plays out in politics. But finally, I settled on the History of Lying. It is the one topic that I think I can find a lot to write on and hopefully there is not too much out there that my approach would mimic. Anyway, I have to go with the way I think and for me, this is a better way than brainstorming.