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My Writing Experience Essay

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I never really liked writing as a child, my handwriting did and still does resemble a drunken preschooler, I much preferred reading. That said, when I did start having to write more complex things, my vocabulary was picked exclusively from cartoons and hardy boy mysteries. Later into my teenage years, I started reading more philosophy and literature that, paired with a superstar tag team of very talented English teachers, made me really enjoy writing. I started looking forward to writing essays, especially persuasive essays, mostly to talk with people who didn't share my view. Moving forward, I don't think my enjoyment of writing will diminish for a long time, and I can see myself writing papers (mostly for Red rocks) for many years to come. …show more content…

Reading better authors than myself makes my shortcomings in the field very obvious, but I spent so much time writing mediocre B plus material that it becomes very easy to slip into bad habits. The biggest goal I have for writing is to use imagery more effectively, while keeping to shorter sentences that don't drag on forever. The second biggest goal I have is to reduce the amount of commas that I use when writing. There are certainly worse problems to have in terms of writing, but it just annoys me to no end and I would really like to address it. The third goal I have is to get better at writing narratives, and in some ways, surpasses the first two. I have a lot of stories that I've been itching to write down, some fiction, some not, but whenever I try to write them, but, aside from a few vivid details and the occasional good simile, it barely resembles the story I remember. For most of the problems I have, proof reading is by far the most important thing I have for improving my writing prowess. Luckily, I have a few family members that can offer insight that the writing center cannot and they've helped me countless times in this endeavor. As far as the narratives go, practice makes it better and repetition makes it perfect. Write the story, reread, find what doesn't live up to the spectacular movie in my head and mumble in frustration until I think of something

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