Freewriting...

This assignment is about freewriting on the topic of "what I was like as a child".  I am going to freewrite for five minutes. 

When I was little, I was, to put it nicely, awkward. I was the worlds biggest Tom-boy.  I had two older brother figures that I looked up to and their hobbies were sports, cars, video games, tools, and anything involving mud.  I am thinking about different memories I have.  I am trying to decide which stories to tell about growing up as a Tom-boy. We used to hang out at each others' houses because our parents were best friends growing up.  We spent half our time at my house and half the time at their house.  They were always helping their dad restore cars, and in turn, I always wanted to tag along and help.  They had an older sister, and I had an older sister who were friends, and they always thought I would fit in better with them.  I never wanted to though.  I always wanted to be their shadow.  I looked up to them a lot.  This made things difficult in elementary school, because I wouldn't be caught dead doing anything girly.  My two best friends were both boys and I would be incredibly insulted if I wasn't picked right away for the sports pick up games on the playground.  I am checking the time, and I have less than a minute, so I am trying to think of the important things I need to say, but I can't think of anything.   Oh well, time's up.

Word Count : 239

My reaction to freewriting:
I love freewriting.  I enjoy having no sort of agenda and seeing where my thoughts end up taking me.  I had a hard time keeping it at just five minutes.  I could have probably continued to write, because it was bringing up all these old memories, that I hadn't thought about in years.  Looking back over what I wrote, I would have liked to clarify certain points or re-word certain things so that I could convey my thoughts just a little better.  I think this is a great brainstorming technique, but I don't really like turning this in as a final project.