Reflect your own Writing

I consider myself, for the most part, to be an above-average writer. I know how to portray my thoughts and ideas in a logical order without sounding too rigid. I know how to keep the type of audience in mind when choosing a writing style. I also know how to keep that audience's attention while getting my point across at the same time. I do, however, sometimes get caught up in making my essays flashy, and in doing so I tend to stray away from the point of the paper. You see, I LOVE thinking up intricate webs of analogies and metaphors to compare ideas in my papers to. It's like I'm writing a book rather than an english paper. While trying to think of descriptive adjectives and fancy ways to communicate something, I'll forget to mention something else completely. In my desire for detail I'll forget the reason for writing. See, I'm doing it now. I like my writing to stand out and not be just another english paper from some high school student who did the minimal needed to get a passing grade. I just take it overboard some of the time.