Assignment: Myself, the Writer
Everyone is a writer, if they believe it or not. For some it is more difficult, and others it just comes naturally. When I was younger it was always hard for me to write, I even hated the thought of writing. Now writing tends to come a little easier, and I don’t struggle with it as much. That is not to say I don’t have problems with writing, but I don’t struggle with it as much.
A few summers back I started to do some free writing. I wanted to keep my mind going since I wasn’t going to summer school. I got out a notebook and just wrote down thoughts. It was almost a daily journal of what was in my head that day or what was going on in my life. Although for the most part it was just a little paragraph or page focused on one subject.
Doing this let my mind flow and my writing improve. There were times when I reached the page marker, but still had something to write down and at that point I realized that doing this writing was helping me. I had only started this writing for the summer, and then it expanded into the next school year and soon enough I needed a new notebook. I was proud of the writer I had become.
Of course once the school year got going I had to put this writing aside. When the first essay of the semester came out I wasn’t as stumped in writing as I had been in previous years. I had focused my thoughts and it worked out almost as a reflection of what I was writing in my notebook. This tends to make the school part of writing a little harder. Trying to word a thesis in a way that it is like the spine of an essay, connecting everything top to bottom. Although, when I write in my notebook I’m not getting graded on it and there doesn’t need to be the structure there is with writing essays for school.
My writing started out with just a single notebook and a fight with myself to write a simple paragraph, and then it expanded into me wanting to write more. I still have those bumps in the road when it comes to writing, but I tend to get out of them a little faster now. I can’t say that I love writing now more then ever, but this experience has made writing more enjoyable
A few summers back I started to do some free writing. I wanted to keep my mind going since I wasn’t going to summer school. I got out a notebook and just wrote down thoughts. It was almost a daily journal of what was in my head that day or what was going on in my life. Although for the most part it was just a little paragraph or page focused on one subject.
Doing this let my mind flow and my writing improve. There were times when I reached the page marker, but still had something to write down and at that point I realized that doing this writing was helping me. I had only started this writing for the summer, and then it expanded into the next school year and soon enough I needed a new notebook. I was proud of the writer I had become.
Of course once the school year got going I had to put this writing aside. When the first essay of the semester came out I wasn’t as stumped in writing as I had been in previous years. I had focused my thoughts and it worked out almost as a reflection of what I was writing in my notebook. This tends to make the school part of writing a little harder. Trying to word a thesis in a way that it is like the spine of an essay, connecting everything top to bottom. Although, when I write in my notebook I’m not getting graded on it and there doesn’t need to be the structure there is with writing essays for school.
My writing started out with just a single notebook and a fight with myself to write a simple paragraph, and then it expanded into me wanting to write more. I still have those bumps in the road when it comes to writing, but I tend to get out of them a little faster now. I can’t say that I love writing now more then ever, but this experience has made writing more enjoyable
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