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My new writing resolution One of my problems about writing English is the speed of output. Looking up dictionaries and grammar books, I take more than an hour to write a one hundred words essay. It’s so tiresome that I tend to procrastinate even though I made a resolution to post English notebooks to italki twice a week. I understand that to write more is the way to fix my sluggish writing, but this sluggishness makes me reluctant. What should I do? I realized that my resolution was wrong. It was a result focused. To think about finishing essays intimidated me because I knew it took a lot of time. Instead, I changed my resolution to a process focused like this: I will write English notebooks for 30 minutes a day. It’s stress free and easier to follow than the previous one. I may produce just one sentence a day, but it’s fine compared to do nothing. I’ve just started this new resolution, but I believe it’ll work well.

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I realized (present tense) that my resolution was probably wrong not realistic. It was a result focused. To think about finishing essays intimidates (present tense)me because I knew know(present tense)it took takes a lot of time. InsteadTherefore, I have changed my resolution to a process focused like this: I will writing an English notebooks entry for 30 minutes a day. Now, It’s stress free and easier to follow than the previous one. I may produce only make just one sentence a day, but it’s fine compared to thats better than doing nothing.***

I’ve just started this new resolution, but I believe it’ll work well.

**In this last paragraph, your tense changed. When writing, please make sure that you are consistent with the tense you are using.

For example, in the beginning you started off with　"one of the problems I face" = present tense.

But in the last paragraph you said:　"I realized.."  =past tense.

In that case, the beginning sentence should be "One of the problems I faced.." to keep the essay consistent. :) 

それはいいですね！英語のがとても上手だと思います！がんばってくださいね＾＾

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My new writing resolution

One of my the problems I face about when writing in English is the speed of output. When I Looking up words in dictionaries and grammar books, It takes me more than an hour to write a one hundred words essay. (or "Looking up words in dictionaries and grammar books causes me to take more than an hour to write a one hundred word essay" 何方もいいです＾＾.)It’s so tiresome thatand I tend to procrastinate even though I made a new years resolution (we usually call our yearly goals "New years resolutions") to post an English notebooks entry to on italki twice a week. I understand that to writing more is the one way to fix my sluggish writing, but this sluggishness makes me reluctant to do so.(I love your use of adjectives! But you might want to use a synonym for "sluggish" and "sluggishness" since you already stated it in the same sentence and to flow a little better. Maybe "I understand that writing more is one way to fix my writing, but my laziness makes me reluctant to do so.") What should I do?


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My new writing resolution

One of my problems with about writing English is the speed of output. Looking up dictionaries and grammar books, I take more than an hour to write a one hundred words essay. It’s so tiresome that I tend to procrastinate even though I made a resolution to post English notebook entries on to italki twice a week. I understand that writing to write more is the way to fix my sluggish writing, but this sluggishness makes me reluctant. What should I do?

I realized that my resolution was inappropriate wrong. It was result focused. Thinking To think about finishing essays intimidated me because I knew it took a lot of time. Instead, I changed my resolution to a process focused like this: I will write English notebook entries for 30 minutes a day. This is It’s stress free and easier to follow than the previous one. I may produce just one sentence a day, but it’s fine compared to doing nothing.

I’ve just started working on this new resolution, but I believe it’ll work well.
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My new writing resolution

One of my problems about writing English is the speed of output. Looking up dictionaries and grammar books, I take more than an hour to write a one hundred words essay.

> One problem I have when it comes to writing something in English is that it takes me a long time to do it.  I have to spend more than an hour just to look the correct words or phrases up in my dictionaries and grammar books.

It’s so tiresome that I tend to procrastinate, even though I had made a resolution to post something in English on my italki notebook twice a week. I understand that to write more is one way /the way/ to fix  this problem,  my sluggish writing, but this the tedium that I have to go through makes me reluctant. What should I do?

I realized that my resolution was wrong. It was a too result focused > ok but unclear. > I realized now that I had  made the wrong resolution. I was too ambitious, thinking that I would be able to reap immediate results by doing that .

To think about finishing essays intimidated me because I knew it took a lot of time. > Just thinking about me having to complete an essay intimidates me, because I know it will take me a long time to do that.

Now, instead having a resolution that focus on completing an essay, I have changed it to one that is based on the amount of time that I want to spend on my writing:  I will  write in English English notebooks for just 30 minutes a day. It’s stress free and easier to follow stick to than the previous one. I may write produce just one sentence a day, but it’s better than not writing anything at all.  fine compared to do nothing.

I’ve just made a started this new resolution for myself, but and I believe it’ll work well.

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Hi, David. Thank you for your precious advice! Yeah, communicating with others fluently is another big challenge of my English learning and I'm thinking now how I tackle with it.

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