Personal Narrative: Growing Into An Effective Writer

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 was able to learn some rules of punctuations from English 1 last year, and I practiced and read more about punctuations from various websites. Although most people are able to fix their punctuations properly, I feel good about the fact that I can do the exact same thing that other people can do.

This piece of writing is a narrative writing piece, my aim is to create an atmosphere of fear and create an experience of the operation. In the writing, I used first person pronouns to show that was a first hand experience. I used I, me, and myself in this writing. I also used sensory details as the smell of the material in the operating room - the smell of anti-infective was strong and strange for me. It helps to create an atmosphere and makes the writing more authentic. I used colour adjectives to help the reader visualize the scenes – pale and blue watch. Furthermore, I also used the sounds to make my writing lively and vivid – “Tik-tok, tik-tok, tik-tok”

I am doing a writing about my writing. Sounds weird right? I would have never considered myself as much as a writer; until I learned in class that I do a lot more writing than I ever thought I did. As it turns out writing can be any form of communication and I was unaware of that.

Writing is the death of me no matter what other people might say. I struggle through procrastination and the creativity needed to write a good piece. Most people would say it’s easy and there is nothing more to it than putting down words and thoughts on paper. But for me, it’s different. It takes a really good idea that will spark something in my mind that will cause the wheels in my head start spinning and my fingers to start moving and forming words and letters on paper. Then after the spark I was able to write a paper that I thought was good and why make changes to something when it is perfect the way it is? That is until someone else reads it and you realize there actually is a way to make it better. From my childhood up to now, the specific

Within my writing, I am most confident about my imagery and descriptive content. I think that I have the ability to excel when it comes to creating a visual for the reader. In addition, I really enjoy creating creative content because it gives you the opportunity to really tell a story and make people feel like they were there with you. In contrast, I think that I need to improve on the structure and grammar within my essays. Specifically within reflective and analytical pieces, my structure seems to loose its shape. Therefore I need to make very clear statements and follow those with extensive proof, without drifting into

Over the course of the semester I was faced with a variety of challenges. On the surface, writing a play and directing that original work is a lot harder than I gave it credit for, initially. On a deeper level, senior project allowed me to overcome some personal obstacles regarding my social side. I thought by putting myself out there as a director and playwright that I would allow myself to do something that scared me; asking people for help and for things I need.

I have been asked what exactly I am doing with this blog, by several readers.

Writing is one of the components in English that gradually took many effort and dedication. My experience in writing so far has improved. Writing was one of the things, I struggled with in school. My writings were on topics, books, and poems. In High school, I knew I needed to improve in writing, so in my Junior and Senior year I took Advanced Placements classes for English.

As a human being, we, all, strive daily to better ourselves, gain confidence, and become more competent. However, sometimes, we need help. So, where does that help come from? We can receive help from parents, teachers, siblings, peers, pastors, neighbors, or complete strangers, but what if there isn’t anyone available? We have access, to a world of knowledge, at our fingertips. Resources are everywhere, if we just open our eyes so that we can see, and our minds so that we can comprehend.

My previous experience in writing hasn’t been much. My first few years in high school I don’t remember writing any essays at all till I moved to a different high school in Battle Creek where I was starting my junior year and my English teacher had us write an essay on compare and contrast and I struggled with it. I started to dislike writing so much that I didn’t even try writing the essays so I had to repeat the English class. I always had trouble with putting things into detail and putting the essays together, never knowing how to start or how to end the essays. I took the same teacher and she saw that I was putting an effort into actually trying to write my essays so she helped me with my essays and made the essays seem easier to write.

Although I have made great strides in some areas, there are many aspects of writing that I still struggle with. For instance, I feel that my organization and structure of ideas has much room to improve yet. With that being said, I still believe that I have learned valuable information and techniques that will have me prepared for writing

I have made progress as a writer because I am stronger in two new genres. The memoir and the food profile have taught me how to write in a different style. I have had to write as if I was writing for a magazine or a blog, in a more casual way. This helped me learn that I have to write with details so that a broader audience understands. It is important to know how to write in a casual way and in a professional way because different situations require different writing.

When I grow up I want to be a writer. First of all ever since I was a little girl I have loved writing. I would write stories or make up stories in my head. Then when I started to read I knew I wanted to be a writer. Because I loved to read, but to be able to write the stories was even more awesome. I would sit in my bedroom for hours just writing. Then as I grew I started to love writing even more. I kept a journal and I would write about my day and what I did. Now that I can read more mature books I know I want to become a writer when I grow up.

Throughout my years as a student, I think that I have become quite the effective writer. I am about to explain certain factors, known as assets and liabilities, that may determine whether or not I truly am this effective writer that I think I am. Ever since I first possessed the ability to put pen to paper, and produce rational thought as a result, I feel that I have been honing these writing assets in order to recreate myself into a prodigious writer. Though I think this, I feel that there is still quite a bit of room for improvement in my writing.