Personal Narrative: Myself As A Writer

Many people enjoy and have fun writing, but then again, many people dislike having to write, including me. Writing has always been something I was never really interested on for many reasons.

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.

This semester involved many writings that challenged my process in ways big and small. The variety of prompts each had their own details that required me to change perspectives as well as research topics to test my abilities as a writer. The topic that I felt helped me grow as a writer the most was the Personal Narrative. This essays caused me to think in its own way and only after completion was I able to effectively use the methods it taught me in my other assignments.

Thinking about our first writing assignment, one of the suggestions focuses on the comparison of writing to running, it became apparent to me that this is something I would enjoy writing about. I am a long time running advocate, competing in marathons, and a neophyte writing student, and I find many similarities in both endeavors.

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.

I have never seen myself as a writer. I have never ever even fantasized about writing. I am a practical

As a writer I have come a long way in the process of writing. The foundation I have developed is because of my dedication and the help from certain teacher’s that point out the mistakes I made. With all the different challenge’s from the papers I have written has help me look at certain clause of what too talk about and how to organize it. I especially appreciate the outlines because they came in handy of how to separate my thesis from the paragraphs and conclusion, which allowed me too build up from there by adding good useful resources. Each specific task I have completed gives me knowledge, by helping the analytic side of my brain transform the information I conceived into a way I can understand it. For one thing, my previous research I

As a writer, I would define myself as someone putting a check in the box. I have never

It’s hard to recall a time where I’ve succeeded in creating a somewhat decent paper, mostly because I never wrote much as a high school student. However, last semester, I did write three essays for my Psychology class which resulted in a good grade and very great feedback. I put a lot of time in coming up with personal examples that would interest my professor. As I expected, my professor loved how personal my essays were and how I met the criteria.

My experience as a writer hasn't been overly pervasive. I was on the creative writing team throughout my middle school years and so I've learned how to think up ideas quick and connect them to flow into a story. I have received high marks on my writing papers in English as well as any other class. Being in the Speech and Debate club, I have accumulated knowledge or how speakers put their words together into a powerful and extraordinary speech. I believe that I am more prominent in personal narratives but I am just as tactical in Informative and research papers.

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.

From 2nd to 7th grade, I used to think of myself as a good writer. I would write my papers and have my mom double check them, and most of the time, they didn’t have too many mistakes. By the time I was in 6th and 7th grade, I was on my own and didn’t need her to check them anymore. Seeing as my mother was a teacher, she knew the importance of good grades and instilled that same mindset in me. I averaged As and Bs and held this average with ease up until 8th grade. I came into 8th grade very confident that I was going to get good grades. I was now on the top of the food chain and had almost perfected balancing all the sports I played with school work. Walking into English class, I was very excited to see that the class was small, and many of

It all comes back to when I picked up my first book as a child. I was always the kid that would sit in the corner and read while everyone was playing outside. I remember staring at the words typed on the pages on my books and wanting to be the one that wrote them. It came so naturally to me. As my love for reading grew, I started to be capable of writing. At that moment, it was just messy scribbles and circles on blank paper but to me, it was so much more.

Many times I find myself just rambling a list of events when writing. I do not enjoy writing but I do not hate it. My goal this year for me as a writer is to get better at making my writing pieces a fun story to read and not just a boring list of events. I do not see myself with a career involving writing in the future but you never know. I don't think I would ever have the patience to write a published book. My favorite author is definitely Gary Paulsen. Gary Paulsen wrote my favorite book Hatchet. My favorite writing piece i've ever done was my paper on Russia in fourth grade. A research paper is my favorite type of paper because you learn as you write. My least favorite type of paper to write is a Personal

Throughout my life, I noticed that if I want to have an everlasting friendship, I have to choose a person who loves, cares, and respects me and I struggled a lot to find a friend with these personalities. However, my relationship with writing is similar to my friendship. Until this time, writing and I are not good friends. There is a huge space that keeps us away from each other. I describe my relationship with writing as a struggle; I have always struggled in choosing a title, topic and the words that I have to use. Therefore, to get closer to writing I have to do some actions and these actions require hard working, learning, and practicing. Writing for others is a hobby but to me it’s a punishment and I only write when I’m forced to.