While writing this essay I experienced many difficulties. Whether it was pre-writing or while writing I would say this was pretty difficult . First I had to create a research question based on a theme in the book “The Namesake”. Creating a narrowed down research question was very difficult. I was overthinking that creating a very narrowed down question would make research hard, and I was wrong but writing my paper was certainly delayed because of it. I ended up changing my research question like twice and after I wrote a few of my paragraphs because I realized I wasn’t really answering my question and my reasoning wasn’t matching my initial claim. I also couldn’t quite find how to put my thoughts into that claim. While writing the essay I didn’t have all of my sources before I wrote it, I wrote a few paragraphs and I would continue researching and finding the rest of the sources that I needed to complete my essay. We created an outline as an assignment and at first I didn’t put it to use while writing my essay but then I started taking a look at it and it helped me remember the purpose of some sources in my essay. A common struggle that I always have while writing essays is being able to conclude all of my ideas from a long paper and try to link all of those ideas to that claim that I was trying to make. I finished writing my essay’s first draft for peer reviews and I left the conclusion for last, and I am pretty proud of the outcome of my conclusion. This paper was difficult and I managed and did things in certain ways to be proud of my outcome.