A Writing Damsel in Distress
I don’t remember how I learned to write, I know I did obviously but it’s a mystery to me how. I barely remember my early years of schooling. Over my seventeen years of life I have had personal experiences with writing and English teachers that have formed me into the caliber writer that I am now. My first successful writing memory was in the fifth grade a graphic novel. I remember one of my classmates explaining what a graphic novel was one day and I just had to create one of my own. I was always an original kid, so it wasn’t going to be about some jerk in a cape saving a damsel in distress. No. This novel had a special flare. It was all designed on white printer paper I used sharpies for coloring and attached the pages with three strategically placed staples. It was about a girl who had been kidnapped from her family, but her kidnappers didn’t know she was a black belt in Karate. She fought her way out of a leaky basement, and to the street where
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In early years I lacked self-motivation in subjects that didn’t interest me. To be perfectly honest about the whole thing, I fell asleep a lot. Nothing against the teacher, because if she was she was teaching science I would be on like white on rice. But she was a grammar teacher and I was a twelve year old girl with the attention span of fruit fly, she was boring and I was daydreaming about what was for lunch, and trying to figure out a way to get to the snack line before all the hot wings and sugar cookies were gone. Sounds comical right? Not so much now, I struggle with grammar so much now and I often wish I could go back. Shake myself and say “hey wake up, because we don’t want to be in the twelfth grade struggling with run on sentences.” I can’t do that.” I do have many problems with spelling and grammar that I continuously struggle with now that I can trace back my issues to that
Distant, cold, and non-existent describes my relationship with writing. My relationship with writing has never been a close relationship. Writing has always been difficult for me. I have never hated writing, but it has been a constant challenge for me. I will be discussing my fears of writing, the value of being able to express your ideas through writing, and what excites me about writing more and more.
I have always loved to write, and it became even more evident when I entered elementary school. I quickly befriended a girl named Beth, who lived just down the road from me. One afternoon that I remember in particular was in the middle of the summer. She and I were set to write a book. We had read countless storybooks on our own, and we could not see why we could not write one too. We sat down with a notebook and two pencils, and we were set to go.
My earliest experience with writing was my learning period that formed not only my style of writing but how I studied and the ability to apply words and concepts into a structured format. The process at first was difficult because it was my first time being exposed to structured writing which caused me to put it off until the last minute or lose interest in the topic I was writing about. The rowdy classroom was eager to release near the end of the day, but we knew we had to face one of the more uninteresting subjects of the day: middle school English.The teacher thoroughly explained our assignment which made each one of us cringe. The class finally initiated work mode and I was clueless. I would start to make progress but would be constantly
I first started writing around when I was in the third grade. I loved to read fiction and I wanted to write it too. That year I had a story about my hair published in an Akron newspaper. Getting that story published made me feel really excited about something and I wanted to continue to do it forever. Eventually, we had to start to learn to write in cursive and I hated it so, I slowed down on writing during school and at home. I would still get good grades on reports and writing assignments but I never enjoyed it as much. I could never find the desire to write but when I did write I was never happy with the outcome.
My experiences as a writer have been both very engrossing and strenuous. I have learned a great quantity on both reading and writing, though, I continue to struggle on things that I have learned by this time, making the same mistakes that I do not even realize. Sometimes things are not so easy to understand when reading information, especially if the wording of an article is difficult for example. I love the idea of learning new things everyday. These past years as a writer have been very interesting, and I have learned and grasped many concepts I have been taught along the way.
Joining the fifth grade that year made me especially nervous. What if on the first day I had to write a story?what would my teacher think of my sub par work? Why was it so difficult and taxing on my mind to come up with the right word for a phrase? I was beginning to think of all of my problems I faced that year and school hadn't even started. I elected to ask the best source of knowledge I knew of, my mother. If she could raise a kid, she could help me write also, or at least that was the thought. Later I would know my mother affirmed my realization that some people weren’t writers and that I definitely wasn't one when she mentioned how she never was a writer as a child. The craziest thing about my dilemma was how it was only writing i never understood, reading and the rest of my school subjects I understood perfectly, and I even had one the
When it comes to writing I have a mental breakdown, I get nervous, overthink, and emotionally stressed. These three words describe me as a writer. In high school I would have a difficult time starting papers, often times my weaknesses was grammar and sentences fragments. How I feel about writing is how I feel when a love one dies. It's like as if I'm at a funeral and my paper is the one being funeralized. I think the reason why I am how I am about writing is because my college English teacher in high school was so harsh on my papers, and ever since then I've been traumatize to write papers.
My earliest experience with reading and writing were traumatizing especially when I was in the first grade. I still recall the experience I went through to this day. It made me really hate myself because the other kids were making fun of me.
The first thing I can remember about my writing was in 8th grade my English teacher inspired me to write. Not only about short stories but about my life if I didn't want to talk about my problems. I remember it so well, I was having a hard time with school and family issues were happening. My grades reflected that writing helped me a lot. I realized what I had to do, writing changed everything opened up more I felt better as a person my writing opened my eyes in a way. I did my work and efficiently. I don't like to read nearly as much as I like to write. I used to write a lot more about things I thought I was pretty good at writing short stories but then I just stopped
A couple of years ago my English teacher assigned me to write a short novel. At first I wasn’t really thrilled about having to spend 3 weeks writing a book for one of my least favorite subjects. I thought it was going to be hard and not worth the effort, until I started to write. Once I had my topic and an outline the writing came to me very easily. After a while of writing I started to get into the assignment and it became more of a pleasing task. I firmly believe it was that assignment that made me realize I was a better writer than I thought and that if I put my mind into it could produce good writing.
The first teacher that I fully understood what writing meant was freshmen year in high school. My teacher was Mr. Landuyt and he explained to us that writing is for our own personal benefit. At that moment I realized that writing is not just for a grade to keep our parents happy. The most successful thing I have ever written was a short story that I wrote when I was a senior in
Many people enjoy and have fun writing, but then again, many people dislike having to write, including me. Writing has always been something I was never really interested on for many reasons.
My writing experience started in high school. I was part of the high school yearbook. I was business editor as a freshman up to being the editor my senior year. I also participated on the newspaper staff. I had some experience in college, but I did not finish college. I then did not have any more experience until I started work as a leader at Nisco. I finally started college classes again.
I have always struggled with my writing assignments. If I had the option not to write I would take that option with no hesitation. I truly dreaded it, when we have to type essays. Now, I have been into two English classes where I have felt a little more comfortable in being able to write something without being so embarrassed or ashamed in what I’m about to turn it. I still feel horrible about my spelling and grammar.
In this semester my achievement of improving my writing skills has increased significantly. My sentence lengths vary in a positive manner along with my word choice improving, becoming more complex and of writing expectation. My main struggle this semester would be the peer editing. Although I have improved significantly I still find it difficult to edit others papers. Further more than the common spelling and grammatical errors. I believe my essays have improved drastically from the beginning of the semester towards the end.