Throughout my entire eighth grade experience, I have completed much more writing than in any other school year I’ve attended. The many writing assignments I’ve been given has made writing and the language arts highly present in my mind, and I started to think more about my goals as a writer. Reading books has always remained one of my favorite hobbies, and I hold great respect for authors who have published literary works born from their own imagination. Since I was very young, I always believed that sooner or later I’d publish my own book. As I grew older, I realized publishing a story wouldn’t be quite as easy as I had thought. Regardless of this, the idea of sharing works of my imagination with the world remains decidedly inviting. The process may be difficult, but the personal benefit of mental freedom is worth it. Writing a story, however, is only one of the writing goals I hope to achieve.
Another goal of mine is to enter a writing competition. My aunt, an English teacher, introduced a few competitions to me that accept narrative writing and picks the best submissions out of an international pool of participants. The winners of these contests usually receive large sums of money and sometimes paid trips, which is an exceedingly large motivator.
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In the application, participants are required to write responses that will be taken into consideration by judges. Because Broadcom is a national competition among middle school students, there will be many other students my age with incredible projects. I will likely have to use my writing in the application as a crutch to compensate for my probably inferior project. I aim to be hopefully be among the thirty finalists who receive an all-expense paid trip to Washington D.C. to compete in team STEM
I don’t really like writing because whenever my teacher tells me to write about something I start to get confused on what to say then I start to get mad at myself and start to cry.The best thing I have ever written is when I had to wrote about legos, it was a nine pages and alot idioms and more.
On April 11, I have set two goals on my writing. During the pass two month, I haven’t fogotten the goals I’ve set for my improvement after receving so many 3 or 3-‘s. So I’ve been continuesly woring on my goals while writing stuffs. My goals were to improve my vocabularry and grammar on my writing works. Not too hard right?
Within the past semester I have learned many critical lessons about my style of writing as a reader and thinker, and the steps and skills it takes to improve this art. As I wrote the short story analysis, poetry analysis, analysis of drama, and novel analysis I believe in the process of writing them, I became a significantly better writer. Because I am a systematically inclined thinker, it was difficult for me to grasp the conceptual tactics within writing. Luckily, the outlines and links you provided us helped me allocate the main points (and highlights) in my papers. This type of formatting allowed me to organize my whole essay so I know what I need to include in each paragraph. Because of this, I was able to connect my ideas and data in a more concise manner, instead of having my ideas strewn about.
This semester we have done many activities/sessions that have really helped me grow as a reader, writer, and as a learner in general. We have done everything from writing a literary essay, to learning how to write with argumentative purposes.
From a young age, athletics were a very important part of my life and soccer was my passion. Whether it was playing on boy’s teams and summer leagues, or refereeing tournaments and coaching soccer camps, I was constantly trying to improve my game. When I came to college, I was excited to have the opportunity to continue playing soccer. Unfortunately, I received several concussions and I had some complications that ultimately forced me to stop playing soccer after my sophomore year. At first I was distraught, all of my personal goals were gone and I was no longer working with my teammates toward the goals we set together. However, I realized I needed to find new interests and new objectives to work towards during the rest of my time in college.
Who am I and why did I start writing? Both valid questions that I have recently been asked and both questions I am not entirely sure how to answer. I am a young woman with a passion for words. I am a sister, a daughter, an aunt, and a friend with endless amounts of love and laughter to share. I am emotional, intuitive and caring. I am a believer, a fighter and a lover. I am a lot of things, all of which contradict each other, yet complement each other. As for why I started writing, that's simpler to answer. Ever since I was a little girl I have always loved to read - it was always an escape. Through my parents' treacherous and painful separation, my sister leaving, bullies in school, and all the other horrors, books were always there to provide
Organize my food by shopping time. Using one of the shelfs for each grocery-shopping period.
Throughout the course of my time here in Olympia, my skills as a writer have blossomed and developed exponentially. From what I’ve seen and gone through this past year I’ve got quite a lot of inspiration and plenty of drive to keep me creative and functioning as an aspiring author. One thing that’s pushed me to dig deeper into my mind for a stronger story has been this blog. The prompts given to us have really made me reflect on myself, which I admittedly don’t do that often. This final entry should wrap up what this blog has done for me this semester, and show you what changes I’ve made as a growing author.
I enrolled in Creative Writing as a challenge to myself to branch outside of my comfort zone of reading, and reverse the roles by becoming a writer. Coming into this class, I had no previous experience creatively writing; however, I knew that in order to go into my desired profession as a developmental editor for young adult fiction, I must know how to do what I want to tell others to do, write a well formed story. Through my experience in this class, I have had the opportunity to learn about the creative writing process and my personal relationship with it as well as dabble in multiple forms of creative writing, for which I would have never otherwise tried.
It's not everyday you stumble across an interesting profile of someone you barely know. Though when you do, you start to take into account all the amazing experiences you can have together.
In the third grade I was one of the few kids who still wasn’t able to read. I remember very clearly being embarrassed whenever my teacher told us to go read when we were done with our work because all I could do was look at the pictures. Somehow, despite being a late bloomer, I developed a love for reading. That love quickly turned into a love of the english language as a whole, and gave me the intense desire to write. Since I can remember I’ve always loved writing, no matter what type it was. Academic, creative, fictitious or non fiction, I’ve always loved it. Though I still do spend a lot of my time procrastinating at the start of an essay, I’ve always been able to manage to get something out that I’ve felt at least mostly proud of.
In my younger years of elementary school, I would spend most of my free time writing. One of my teachers taught me how to cultivate my active imagination by turning my thoughts into stories. I filled up three notebooks with fictions by the time I was in 6th grade. After that year, I would only write occasionally until my passion was sparked again around 10th grade. Since then, I’ve been practicing improving both my creative and professional writing skills and wish to incorporate them as a large part of my career.
I am Mariela Barragan and I am in your Tuesdays and Thursdays Freshman Composition class. To me a writer is someone who is creative, who really loves to write, and someone that can express ideas and feelings into words and puts it out there for others to read about. I don't consider myself to be a writer because first of all I don’t like writing and second of all I have a lot of difficulty expressing my ideas into words.
I do not like to write. The thought of me being a writer is a small thought because I don’t like writing. I don’t like writing because I don’t find it interesting. But I do like reading because most writers put a lot of details into their stories. All of my memories of writing assignments are bad. As a kid, I did not like when we had to write what we did as a kid like trips and other things where I had to explain myself. Every writing assignment seems like torture because I don’t like writing. When a teacher says we have a writing assignment I feel like I want to cry.
Welcome to my first shared story, if you enjoy comment, if not comment. I just want to become a better writer, and since sci-fi isn't usually my cup of tea i was planning on writing another story but a high fantasy either in a full on spell arrangement or enhancement like magic type thing.