Dirty Dishes

2 Pages 490 Words

She has a deadline, and the dishes are dirty. All day Christine’s mom has been reminding her, “You need to wash the dishes!” but being the procrastinator that she is, Christine put it off untill the last minuite. Now she has thirty minuites before dinner is ready, and no dishes. She also has a paper due tomorrow! Once more, Christine’s mom comes into the room and reminds her of the dishes that await her. Frustrated and annoyed, Christine reluctantly leaves the couch and walks over to the kitchen.
Like chores, Christine doesn’t enjoy writing and tends to put it off untill the last minuite. She starts to fill the sink. Christine realizes that cleaning, and writing are very similar. When you wash the dishes, you first need to fill the sink. When writing you first must fill your mind with ideas by brainstorming. You cannot wash dishes without water, you cannot write without ideas. This is a step that Chrisitne tends to skip. Once the sink is full, she is ready ready to begin. For the next step, Christine puts the dishes into the water, again she can relate this to her writing. Once ready to begin writing, she first needs to write down her thoughts and put them on paper, completing her first draft. When you’re ready to wash, first you need to put the dishes in the water. But you’re not ready to wash yet, first you are supposed to let the dishes soak, and come back later. Christine is impatient and begins to scrub away. When Christine writes, she doesn’t come back and read over her paper later. This problem leaves her assignment with misspelled words and gramatical errors, like you would leave a dish with specks of food.
When Christine is finished with the washing, she carelessly lays the dishes out to dry, without checking to see if they are totally clean. When you’re finished with your first draft, you give it to a peer to look over and correct any mistakes. Like peer editing, Christine’s mom comes in ...