On topic. (a paragraph)

I've realized reading my last post that despite almost knowing how to comfortably write a paragraph, definitely a necessity in professional writing, I still have no grasp of solitary topics. This is glaringly obvious if you read some of my essays from college and highschool. It is difficult, perhaps impossible for me to write any amount on a single topic without; changing tack somewhere, pointless theoretical referencing or complicated metaphorical ramblings. This is something I hope to overcome in the next few weeks, when I will commences a series of writings on a single literal subject (as I attempted to do some weeks ago with my paragraph on swans, a disaster) and start tonight with a short on my own inability to stay on-topic.

My initial response to the subject of "topic" is to examine my older writings intended to be "on topic". I'm reading through my Dramatic comedy essay. Simple enough in theory but my first paragraph is cloudy and pointless padded with irrelevant points and expressions. It's almost stream of consciousness, using rhythmatic sequences of beats and offbeats, rhymes and tone to create the sound of a paragraph without any of the necessary points. I'm actually having problems finding a better piece to use as an example but I seem to have written two essays in the last eighteen months, and they both blow. I must've written most of my essays the morning before they were due, printed them in the school library and then destroyed them permanently. Which seems a little extreme. I think I had really forgotten how un-academic I was.

(It took me so long to write that, and I think it might all be gibberish AND I'm also reading three things at the moment, proof that I can't focus on one thing for more than three minutes (or equivalent local value))

I meant to write another paragraph about "topic', but then I read Johnny Cashs' wikipedia article.

Tune in later this week for: More Than A Paragraph About Something!