I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM DOING!

I'm trying to finish this essay and I DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM DOING AND NOW I'M SLIGHTLY FREAKING OUT BECAUSE OF IT. Sorry for the "yelling." I felt it was necessary. I have never drawn so many blanks about an essay in my life...

I've read through the prompts and tried to do the essay prep thing Miss Stariha had, but it's not helping and I don't know what to do. I'm very discouraged right about now. And it was already a very rough week.... :/

My writting struggle

To me the hardest part about writing a paper is siting down and writing the rough draft. This rhetorical analysis paper by far has been the hardest paper in my opinion to write. For a while my mind had gone completly blank and i had no idea what to write about. But then i remembered stariha talking about outlining and free writing and how they are helpful when writing. And so i sat down and outlined my paper, and free wrote on how the auther developed his argument. And it WORKED i was able to figure out my thesis and the points of my paper, and although my paper is far from good, i have something to work with.