Despite spending most of my time either playing games that I’ll write about or writing about them, I’ve always dreaded writing essays. I find that the vague thirty word title as a brief and a high word count tends to result in bad writing.

I’ve recently had to write one on ‘a force’ that has affected change for consumers, naturally I went with what I knew and picked communications technology – namely the internet. I always feel like I’m cheating when I’m writing an essay on something I know, especially after my last essay when I conveniently wrote about video games so I could post it on Nidzumi afterwards.

I think I’ll have to take an oath – an internet oath, so you know I’m serious – that for the next essay I’ll write about something I’m not knowledgeable on.

My main reason for hating essays is the word count concept – what ever happened to quality not quantity, that’s what all our other non-essay giving lecturers say. I can understand that it’s just a ‘tradition’ but high word counts lead to ridiculously long and strung out points. A real challenge would be to give us a massive topic to sum up in like 250 words, that way we would have to punchy and concise. I’d happily do 250 words on a different subject every week, hell, I do it here on this blog everyday now.