Ever since I was a little girl I have avoided writing. I have always seen it as a daunting experience. I did not like writing my own stories, unlike other kids my age. I much more enjoyed reading and escaping to new realms. Writing has never interested me even though I believe I’m pretty good at it. However, as I was forced to write as I grew up I had to learn how to cope with writing and learn how to write well.
I always write in silence because it makes me focus on my assignment, but right now I’m trying to use music to see if it can help me through this freewrite. I’m currently listening to Today’s Hits on Pandora. Yes, the same radio crap you hear over and over everywhere you go. I believe it’s working. I feel calm and kind of excited to take on this generative writing. Hopefully it will help me. I am in my bedroom and I prefer to write in my bedroom because I can relax and be by myself. It is always hard for me to write in a classroom because there is too much talking and I can’t hear myself think. I could tell the other students to zip it, but that would be mean. I have grown accustomed to typing now that I do schoolwork online and I have begun to like it. It is easier that writing by hand because you don’t have to get a new piece of paper out when you need to revise. You can just make changes to your original draft.
The person in my life who has influenced me the most in my writing was my 5th grade writing teacher, Mrs. Ireland. She was not only my favorite
For many writing comes naturally, for myself it is sometimes a struggle. Back in high school I could sum up my view of writing with two words, a battle. I avoided writing like it was the plague, this continued through my first few years of college right after high school. I have since evolved from being apprehensive from my irrational fears that kept me from writing, and now am able to pick up a pad and pencil and enjoy my time writing.
Writing became a way for me to express other feelings throughout my young years, but I always ended up writing in notebooks about how I was lonely and felt that I was the source of everything wrong in my life.
My attitude towards writing is very unfavorable. I just don’t enjoy it at all. It’s a very tedious task when you factor in all of the revision steps that it takes to produce a quality essay. Writing requires a long amount of time spent planning and preparing that is not for impatient people like myself. However, I believe that with a little bit of some confidence and patience, I could learn to enjoy myself when I write. I think it’s a great outlet for some but just hasn’t ever really been something that made me feel relaxed or stress-free. Writing just clouds my head with confusion and anxiety. I guess I can blame this on the fact that all my previous experiences writing has been academic and in a time-restricted environment. However, I am excited to see how my impression of writing changes throughout my college career now that I am not confined to a forty-minute window.
I have always had a trouble in writing and after taking this GSW course I feel much more confident in my writing abilities and have learned many skills that I will always be able to use in my writing. I feel that over the course of this writing class that I have learned a lot of useful information and have grown as a writer. I have learned many skills that have improved my writing from the sources I use to the styles I write into using visuals in my papers. I have also improved my writing process. I go through many more steps to make sure my writing is to its best. I use more than just myself in my writing process I use others to help me and give me feedback on how I can improve even more on my writing. I have made a huge change in my writing
Writing assignments are absolutely the worst, it is my least favorite thing ever. I am not good at writing, especially on the spot. As soon as I am required to write a paragraph, short story, essay, anything that is not a memo or email, every part me just starts to quiver. Before I can start writing, thoughts of what to write roll around in my head like scatter marbles, trying to come up with what to write. A process that can take anywhere an hour to a day. This shortens if I am even a short story first. Reading a story first release my imagination making my direction much clearer. Once I have a clear vision of what I am going to write, my fingers cannot keep up with the words flying through my head. Traditionally, the textbook teaches to
Every man is born or implanted with a gift designed for his or her destiny in life. Some have a natural born gift as a writer and some are not quite blessed in that field. As a dawdler, my writing process consists of plenty of procrastination and has often resulted in low essay grades; to be better myself as a writer I plan to start on assignments early, research the topic, and expand my genre of texts. Acknowledging transgressions of your writing will help a writer become more successful or better because he has recognized his weakness and now know what to fix.
The most difficult part about writing an essay is getting started. Writers block is definitely a writer’s biggest fear. Hours upon hours spent drawing blanks, chewing away at the top of the pencil searching for ideas is certainly common for even the best writers. Even the author of Please Don’t eat the Daisies Jean Keer admits that she feels most inspired when she reads labels.
My teacher for English my sophomore year was Mrs. Hales, she was amazing. Her class was what sparked my love for writing. Every day she would have writing prompts to do the first fifteen minutes of class. Just going into that everyday knowing that you could go in and just write about whatever you wanted was great. And another thing she did was she would always have music playing, but it was Enya. Which is smooth melodies and the words she sings are peaceful and beautiful. So that set me up to put me in the mood to write, so to this day I listen to Enya if I am stuck while writing. Her class just encouraged my passion for writing that I still have today.
Ever since I was little, I have always had the talent to write. During elementary school, I was the girl who wrote mini books to share with friends and told long fantasy stories that I wrote during lunchtime. Things such as essays, research papers, or creative writing assignments have always been written in a breeze. Writing is one skill that comes natural to me and has never been a task that I have struggled to do. Writing is special to me since it allows me to express my ideas, thoughts, and aspects of myself in a multitude of ways- poetry, songs, stories, and speeches; writing has given me endless forms of self-expression. Similarly to school, writing is something that makes me think. Writing is a talent that takes up all of my brainpower
Writing has always played a huge role in my life. I’ve been reading writing for as long as I can remember as I have an immense love of reading. This love would grow into a love for writing as well; I still stumble upon journals and writings from my five-year-old self about the happenings in my kindergarten class. As time would go on I would discover academic writing, and how to convey my thoughts on what was the topic of student that particular year or semester in my schooling. Later, writing would become a constant for me, and a comfort; I was known to my friends as always having a journal, and a pen on my person. I learned to write down my feelings and my thoughts, song lyrics that were in my head, reflections for the day. I learned how
All throughout my years of schooling, I’ve had just about, one paper that was about one page long, due every year. My papers never had to be more than one page in length. Therefore, I did not have to do much writing or do many essays. Surely not enough to remember any of the assignments. Writing has never been something I enjoyed doing, so I never bothered to many any memories of my writing experiences. I did not think it was necessary to remember any of them since I only had to do them to get a grade. The only writing experience I remember was the first assignment I had in this English 100 class about a writing experience. All week long, I sat there thinking about what to write about, but nothing came to mind as a topic. Then, one thing came to mind, but it was so very vague, I could not write the length that was needed for the assignment. I could only think of a few sentences to write for it. After sitting for a few moments longer, I thought, how about I write about how difficult it was for me to write this essay before it was due.
Writing has always been something I dread. It’s weird because I love talking and telling stories, but the moment I have to write it all down on paper, I become frantic. It’s almost as if a horse race just begun in my mind, with hundreds of horses, or words, running through my mind, unable to place them in chronological order. Because I struggle to form satisfying sentence structure, it takes me hours, sometimes even days, to write one paper. It’s not that I think I’m a “bad writer,” I just get discouraged easily. Needless to say, I don’t think highly of my writing skills. When I was little I loved to both read and write. I read just about any book I could get my hands on, and my journal was my go to for my daily adventures. Although it’s
I started to write since I was seven years old. At that time, I completely did not know what is writing. Teacher told us to write diaries and read storybooks every day. Thus, at the beginning of writing, I thought writing is to record things happened in every day life with emotions or some kind of unrealistic stories that is in one’s mind. However, writing was so confusing to me. I could only write down my memories for the day with simple emotions such as happy, sad or angry. Later on, teacher started to assign topic essays rather than just write diaries. For example, we could write about a pretty scene we have seen, a person we have met or a place we have been. After several months of practice, my ability for composing sentences got better, but my writing was still hollow.
As a small child I can remember trying to even write stories of my own, but never finishing them. I could tell you about all of the “songs” I wrote that I, at the time, thought were fantastic; but believe me, they aren’t worth anyone’s time! In elementary school, as I was just starting to explore my writing skills, I loved to be around my dad or mom while jotting down my thoughts on whatever I needed to write about. I think it was just the comfort of my parents that I adored, as any child does. I loved how they could pitch in their ideas and I would think they were the smartest people alive! As I started to grow a bit older and was now a secluded type of teenager, writing got a little more difficult for me. I don’t think I knew exactly about the importance of a writing environment. I was always writing at home, in my room. I
Writing is powerful. It gives us freedom to be the illustrator of our own imagination. While growing up I would write until my hand was sore, through schooling, teachers and different experiences I lost my love for writing. Now I have to give myself a mental pump up, before picking up a pencil, or sitting down to write a paper. My journey through writing is a rocky one, with accomplishments and detriments. I cherished writing growing up, I lost that desire, I have strengths and weaknesses as a writer, and I hope that I can regain the love I once had for writing, in this class.