My Writing Experience

All throughout my years of schooling, I’ve had just about, one paper that was about one page long, due every year. My papers never had to be more than one page in length. Therefore, I did not have to do much writing or do many essays. Surely not enough to remember any of the assignments. Writing has never been something I enjoyed doing, so I never bothered to many any memories of my writing experiences. I did not think it was necessary to remember any of them since I only had to do them to get a grade. The only writing experience I remember was the first assignment I had in this English 100 class about a writing experience. All week long, I sat there thinking about what to write about, but nothing came to mind as a topic. Then, one thing came to mind, but it was so very vague, I could not write the length that was needed for the assignment. I could only think of a few sentences to write for it. After sitting for a few moments longer, I thought, how about I write about how difficult it was for me to write this essay before it was due.

While writing might seem like a simple task, it can be a daunting task for a lot of people. Sometimes it can be hard to express the ideas in your mind in the words of a paper. This results in a disconnect with what a writer may actually think. A great writer is one that can transform his thoughts into words perfectly. This is a craft that takes many years to perfect, which is why writing is troublesome for a lot of us. Many students also have had bad experiences with writing. Maybe they had a teacher that didn’t try to support them and their writing. They might not have ever gotten the help they needed and may feel that they are in a hole where their writing can’t get better. At this point, they just accept that their writing will never get better.

Being a writer is not something that comes easy, it is something that must be worked at. You get better at it over time by practicing and improving your writing skills through the help of tools or other people. I persobnally wanted to better my own writing askills, so I began identifying my problems and finding resources to help better those fields in which I need help. My most major problems as a writer include my style or wirting, transitioning, and forming complete paragraphs. I found many helpful tools on my journey to become a better writer and I believe that I have strengthened my understanding of essay writing as well.

My journey into the unknown world of composing has proved to be just that - unfamiliar, alien, and foreign to me. In the past I had once or twice, possibly more than I am willing to admit, patted myself on the back for what I thought were well prepared compositions. Never would I have conceived that I was more of an amateur composer rather than a skilled and experienced writer.

One of my most challenging experiences in writing was actually in Virginia Wesleyan College. During my last semester, I was taking Professor Ruh’s ENG 250 class called 19th Century American Women Writers, and we were required to write a few literary analytical essays on novels and short stories that were written by women during the 19th century. Even though the class was very interesting, I was having such a hard time writing my essays that I actually thought I would never be able to pass his class after I failed my first essay. I am usually the type of student that never asks for help because I would often feel intimidated by my teachers. However, I managed to speak up and ask for his help throughout the entire semester and because of that,

Can you consider myself to be a terrible writer? Most writers get inspiration from experiences, circumstance, or imaginations make a contribution in authors storyline. Each writers have their own style of writing since they all different messages, languages, and tone for the reader to actual take a position in the narrator’s writing. In a past even, when my grandfather is no longer with me, he has made a huge contribution in academic life.

I’m a practiced freelance writer and editor, with experience working for numerous clients and sites. I have authored numerous blog posts, research papers, critiques, psychology and psychiatry, technical scientific articles, product descriptions, press releases, health articles and more.

How long do you think you’ve been writing for? For many, the first lessons on how to read and writer were taught all the way back in elementary school. Over the years I’ve learned more about writing and what it exactly means to be a writer and how we express our ideas in our writing. I’ve always been taught writing, but it’s not so often that I look back on our old essays or writing projects. If I look back, I can see how my writings improved, what and where my writing has changed and even find what hasn’t really changed. Of course over the years, my writing style has been modified and adjusted as I learned new things with different teachers. I’ve look back at old essays before, but now it’s time that I look back and really read through

I often describe myself as an affectionate, animal lover, outspoken, but timid at the same time. I have never described myself as a writer the reason being I’ve never been skillful at expressing myself on paper. At first, as I start to prepare to write I think to myself this is it, this will be the greatest essay I’ve ever typed, this will be the greatest statement ever written. My mind quickly changes when I realize that I have nothing to put down on paper. It took me 2 years to finally take the English courses I was required to take at the beginning of my college years. It frustrates me to look at a blank word document and the blinking arrow cursor, it literally drives me insane. When I took my first developmental writing course, in order to take English 1, it bothered me seeing how fast people could type their ideas in comparison to me.

I do not enjoy writing as the writing expectations from today’s society has completely changed. People expect everything to be written in a certain way. There is no “other” way in writing. There is not self-expression or self-identity anymore as writing has been transformed from something where people could express themselves physically and emotionally, to something where everything is systematic.

“Red Rover, Red Rover, send Chase right over!” I could hear the laughter of the kids running around outside. “Ryan! Get back to work! Stop looking out the window!” My teacher barked. I felt trapped and isolated. As a child, my negative experiences in writing overshadowed the positive ones. These negative experiences all started in elementary school. I was selected to be part of an enrichment program. In this program, I worked on special assignments and community service projects. For example, I gave a presentation to other kids at the school about firework safety. I even helped make bandages from old bed sheets to give to hospitals in Ghana. I also went on various field trips. One that I still remember to

I wish I liked writing more but math is usually my focus. I do enjoy reading a lot but I never make time for it myself. I took an English class last year where we had to read a few different books and I loved it. The part I didn’t like about the class was that we had about two papers due every week about the books. I appreciate writers and I am amazed by what some people can do with words, I just never see myself being able to do anything like that. I see myself more as someone who writes for their assignments and that is all.

While growing up, I was never really the most articulate writer in school. Most of my papers either had the discursive type of writing or was the most prolix essay that no one could understand. As a student, I was always given a rhetorical topic that was never appealing to me or my audience. As more writing assignments presented themselves, the more I thought of writing as distasteful. Kindergarten through Junior year of high school was very bland when it came to writing and reading projects. Never realizing the idea or approach as to how I should properly construct an essay was difficult for me. Until Senior year, I always wrote essays in a ponderous way.

As a child, writing was foreign to me. I spent most of my time playing in the grand outdoors with my sister, or practicing flute or piano indoors. I knew from an early child I wanted to play music, so I had no time for writing, and no interest in doing it. The only time I ever wrote was when required for the annual school celebration of author’s day. Unlike Orwell, I did not want to be a writer as a kid; in fact, I wanted nothing to do with it.

In my college career, I dread writing because I found out I was terrible at it in my first semester. I will never forget, in my first semester, I failed a midterm paper for a political class. That midterm was the longest paper I have ever written, about six pages. Not only did I have a failing score at the top of the first page, but I also had the first two pages covered in red ink pointing out multiple errors; it also did not help that, I also completely miss the prompt. I ended up dropping the class because one’s grade was termed only by a midterm and final paper. That class felt me discouraged about my ability to write. As I continued college, I would rather memorize formula for a math class, than write for any class any day. Although I could not escape writing in college. I had to take other courses that involve writing such as geology, anthropology for example. I always worked with what I had, I never dare pushing my abilities. what I mean by that is not pushing the envelope play it safe get the C and be done. In order to do so I would incorporate key concepts went over lecture or from the readings and added them into the paper and that is it. Although those classes never required a page longer than two or three I still felt overwhelmed when writing for them. It felt like it consumed me as the memory of a that professor handing me back my paper with a failing grade was what I played in my mind; when I heard about a writing assignment. Once I survived these classes with