Personal Essay About My Writing Experience

It is essential to understand that classes taken in grade school do not give students a full understanding of each subject. With the topic of writing, there will always be a new lesson to learn, an aspect to improve, or a differing way to explain. Author Craig Vetter states in Bonehead Writing, “This is your enemy: a perfectly empty sheet of paper. Nothing will ever happen here except what you make happen.” Each story, essay, or response comes from a writer’s experiences. With each attempt at a new piece comes an underlying story of emotions the writer is facing. Each person’s writing is unique and the ideas people have are related to their past experiences and what they believe to be familiar with when deciding which writing style to use. As a high school student, I have learned many things about writing that helped me become the improved writer I am today, but the most essential advice I have received is practice makes perfect. Although there is no actual perfect way of writing, I have discovered that each essay I write, my writing improves. It is easier to spot mistakes, find areas to improve, and ponder elevated word choice to use.

I have found becoming a writer every bit as much a process as writing itself. One does not become a writer overnight but over time, and I offer the following stories as examples of some of the steps I have taken in what is proving to be a life-long process.

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.

Writing is a practice that most of us were taught when we were young. We were taught the basics of grammar, how to form a sentence, conjunction words, how to write paragraphs and more. Although we have learned this skill while growing up and have used the skill every year after entering kindergarten, this does not mean our writing process will ensure the best work. The authors that I chose each encourage their audience to excel in the art of writing in their own way to help with the writing process.

My personal experience, as a writer, is limited only to the days it was required of me, which led to a lack of understanding of a writer’s style and a bad reputation and relationship with past English educators. I never really enjoyed writing, I but always admired reading the works of famous writers, who had the gift of self-manifestation. However, I always seemed to complete the task without any sort of passion or interest. Writing was simply a required aspect of earning a grade. I felt limited in my ability to be creative or interesting to my readers. My writing seemed to lack imagination and vitality. While I was enthralled in reading a good book, writing was an unsatisfying effort and a chore. Expressing my voice and inspiring others

Everyone is a writer but they do not realize it till someone points it out. Not a single day passes without drafting something down. I realized that l was a writer when l got in the habit of writing my daily plans in a journal, that included shopping list, class schedules, meal plan and chores. My brains do a review of how l spent my day every night before l fall asleep. Some days are full of interesting situations that l always write down so l can share with my family. After a week or so, l always have time to read that journal and surprisingly, these short stories are entertaining. That is the moment l realized that l can write anything that l set my mind on.

I’ve always loved art. Whether it was displayed in a museum, on television, or even on the side of a building, I’ve had a constant appreciation of art. Although, as much as I love observing art, I do have my own aspiration to create. Unfortunately, I’ve never had the steady hand to paint or draw. I haven’t had the training or experience to be a musician. As for possible being an actor, I’d rather not be the center of attention around strangers.

When starting my journey in the beginning of the semester, I never thought of the important connections of reading and writing. I never knew how authors use different techniques and strategies in their writing and how they use it to connect to their readers. I also never considered how helpful reading an author’s writing can be to improving my own personal writing. During my journey, I have learned the importance of reading like a writer. I have learned to include the best attributes of what I have been reading into my own writing. I learned to become an existentialist and intrapersonal learner who builds their self-esteem and who looks for more opportunities to improve themselves. I have also learned how the text in writing can affect the reader’s opinions and thoughts and

I’ve always enjoyed writing, but a part of me also hated it. At least in high school I did. Teachers made it seem like I was filling out legal forms and not just trying to get a point across. I felt like I had to be next carefully with every little detail in my writing. I couldn’t be the best writer because I wasn’t being myself. I couldn’t express myself freely or at least not without worrying how I said it.

I created my first short story when I was eight-years-old. It became more elaborate as the years went by, and that story will become a children’s book. I will admit, though, that majoring in English was not always my intention. Throughout elementary school, weekdays included writing short stories and attempting to teach my pets how to read, while weekends consisted of wrapping my dog’s “broken” legs in toilet paper and researching uncommon illnesses. Literature became a top priority, and my aspiration to become a physician was replaced by an eagerness to become a writer.

As a child, I had no help from my parents when it came to school work. My mom worked as a field worker and my dad as a truck driver, I normally saw them around 8 at night, they came home exhausted and prepared for another early day for work. My parents lacked skills I was being taught at school and no experience speaking English. Consequently I had no one to rely on for help on homework and had no older sibling or anyone else around to help me out. Learning how to read and write properly was difficult, Spanish had been my first language.

We all cope with our problems differently and use different things as an escape from our issues. I turned to writing and found a passion in telling a story that may one day help someone that has face the same obstacles that i have , along with writing i began doing makeup , and found the deeper meaning than just applying makeup on faces.

When I was seven, my mom bought me my own planner for tracking my assignments. A bit of overkill for a second grader, but you know, moms.

I believe that I can improve my writing skills when I finish this semester. I also hope I can use those writing experiences in my future writing. English writing is different from Chinese writing in many ways, so it is a big challenge for me. English is not my first language; therefore, I always have many grammar mistakes and vocabulary problems. It is true that without reading many books and getting to know different styles and writing skill, we never can be a good writer. I can improve my writing by reading more books to overcome those problems. However, there are still some problems; I cannot always write a clear thesis statement. Works cited and in class writing also are also serious problems for me, because I corrected it many times. The research paper, cost me a lot of time.

Personally, I haven't always been the biggest fan of writing. I used to dread writing papers for school, and I never thought that I could write for enjoyment. I believe that the reason I had a distaste for writing was because I just assumed that my writing was disastrous. My personal views regarding writing as a whole started to change when I