Personal Narrative: Myself, The 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.

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

In my first “Who I am as a Writer” paper I stated how one of the areas that I needed to improve was writing. I went into more depth talking about how my writing is not descriptive enough and how I cannot grab the reader's attention. Even though I still need to continue making improvements, I have gotten better in both of these aspects. Compared to my papers in high school my introduction paragraphs have improved.

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.

I define myself as a weak writer in certain areas, but have great ideas that I can use to express in my writing. The areas that I struggle with is my grammar, spelling, lackluster work usage, and the introduction paragraph. I have great ideas that I can write it is just that I am not very lucid with grammar structure. During my school years in Nevada, I fell behind in my English skills, because they rarely taught me these skills that I have learn at Creekview. So this why I have fallen behind in English. The adjectives that I would describe my writing style is reprehensible, and lackluster. My writing is reprehensible, because of the lack of strength, and complex sentences. Also, it becomes lackluster, because of my dull choice of word usage.

Throughout my high school career, I have been exposed to many different elements of writing and, although some teachers have emphasized certain areas more than others, I feel I have come a long way as a writer. Despite this I also know I have much further to go. This fact became very clear to me as I was taking my previous course of English, Accelerated English Three. Within this course I was introduced to the MLA method of citation, I experienced disappointment due to receiving a lower grade than I had desired, and I discovered difficulties such as my impatient tendencies to look over errors and mistakes during the editing processes.

My love for writing started when I was around ten years old. I was extremely shy growing up. I had friends but only a handful, I would rather be alone with a book or be working on a story. My writing was my escape from whatever was going on in my life whether it was my grandma being sick or getting in a fight with my older sister, all I needed was a notebook and a pen to write whatever I was feeling out. This lead to notebook upon notebook being filled with stories of the handsome prince saving the princess, or hopeful tales of a shy girl meeting her true love. I was in charge of my own little world and I could make anything and everything happen. As I grew older I kept writing, even though I had outgrown my shyness. I kept writing because

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.

This year has gone surprisingly well. Albeit it's been three days, but I’m hopeful that this’ll be trend that continues. One major goal of mine for this year is passing my classes. If I can accomplish that, I’ll be happy. This is the first year I’m taking a college-level course. I’m in two AP classes. If nothing else, I want to become a better writer through this class. Learning how to write essays that are up to par for college is a necessary evil that I hope to work on. On an educational standpoint I want to improve myself as much as possible. My course load is going to be difficult to say the least. Being able to manage my time and still be able to do what I want is going to be a struggle for me.

I seriously LOVE writing. I enjoy the thrill of creating a story and making it come to life. I don’t know why, but when I’m writing I feel safe, secure, and comfortable. It also helps me take my mind off of stressful situations. My best piece of writing is still in construction. I don’t like being assigned a writing topic like poetry or rhyme and reason. I mostly write about things I want to learn. I guess it helps if I look at it, then read it over again. I get seriously, off-the-chart UPSET if someone interrupts my free write. It’s like I turn into the hulk when I’m totally P.O.ed. Most of my phrases come from books that I read. If a character I read is being a salty person, I say what he/she says when I’m salty. When I wake up in the morning,

Through the semester, there have been many times where I didn’t know what I was going to write or how I was going to write it but with the help of my peers and Ms. Calow I was able to complete my projects. At the beginning, I did not like writing about my discipline at all because I felt as if it was too confusing for me to write about. As the semester went along it became easier and easier to write about my discipline. I was happy when I was able to write in my discipline because I felt like I could express my thoughts and opinions as well as factual information that I researched. I liked writing in my discipline way more than writing about my discipline, because I felt like I had more of a connection with the audience that I was writing to. After this semester, I have seen my interest in writing rise from not liking writing at all, to actually enjoying writing. Hopefully I can continue to improve after this semester and become an even better writer in and about my

A laboratory mouse knows of nothing more than the walls of the labyrinth it is confined

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.

Writing has always been a part of my life. For as long as I could remember, I have always had a passion for writing. I still can recall my first experience. I was in the first grade; also, I just learned how to spell my name. It was no kid in the world more excited than me at the time. I never felt so accomplished. For instance, I used to spell my name with a g instead of a j. I remember going to class with my pencil and my paper every day ready to learn. One of my very first accomplishments as a writer was winning author of the month for being the first student to write a paragraph without any mistakes. That is pretty big for a first grader. It seems like it was just yesterday. Between first and third grade I won many awards, but I had my eyes set on one bigger than a tapeworm appetite. Who would have known that this award would test my writing skills to the maximum

Revise: My feelings towards writing have always been negative. I find writing to be very tedious and chose not to write unless it is required. I’m definitely not much a writer so the process I use for writing is very simple. First I start off by making a brainstorm on a piece of scratch paper ,usually they start with one big bubble then branch out. Next I bring together all of my ideas to make a rough draft that I write out. The first draft for me is just to throw all of my ideas onto paper into actual sentences. Last I just take my draft and type it up, and just fix my mistakes as I type.