Personal Narrative: My Feelings About Writing

My mind can never be quieted. I am constantly thinking of moments or ideas or fantasies. What is all this dreaming worth if I cannot share it with the world? That is why I have gone on a quest to find an outlet for my thoughts. It has not been a process that has been traversed with ease, but through this journey, I have found many pastimes that have helped form my thoughts and beliefs.

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.

First of all I would like to express my great heartfelt thanks for the time we had passed throughout the course and semester. It was interesting and nice because learning in funny way is among one of the best methodology teaching method to make students feel free rather than being annexed by professors.

Within the past semester I have learned many critical lessons about my style of writing as a reader and thinker, and the steps and skills it takes to improve this art. As I wrote the short story analysis, poetry analysis, analysis of drama, and novel analysis I believe in the process of writing them, I became a significantly better writer. Because I am a systematically inclined thinker, it was difficult for me to grasp the conceptual tactics within writing. Luckily, the outlines and links you provided us helped me allocate the main points (and highlights) in my papers. This type of formatting allowed me to organize my whole essay so I know what I need to include in each paragraph. Because of this, I was able to connect my ideas and data in a more concise manner, instead of having my ideas strewn about.

I love to write. It’s actually where I feel most creative. However, I don’t love to write. It is my belief that composing documents by typing them is unquestionably easier and more efficient. When one physically writes, they typically tire easily. For me, it’s usually at five sentences or so when my hand starts to cramp up. At that point, I begin to compromise in my writing, trying to get to my point as quickly as possible, so that I can just get it over with. I also find that I’m a planner when writing. I can have a whole paragraph mapped out in my head before even starting it. However, when I have to slowly and painstakingly compose with a pen or pencil, I lose many of the ideas I had going into it, and again, just want to get it over with.

Writing is always giving me that love and hate feeling. Generally, if you ask me about my writings, I assume you are asking about personal writing, because academic writing is something I just have started last year. In addition, one thing that I love about writing is that give me a chance to express myself. So, let’s focus on my personal writing first. Like most of the kids from China, I officially started writing in my first year of elementary school. I don’t know if you can tell but I was being considered one of the best writer in our class. I was that kid whose writing was always being read in front of class as the good example. I was, kind of proud, at least at that period. A lot of credit must go to my mom, who has taught me how to write

I am a 25-year-old, threefold combat veteran of the United States Army. I have served on active duty from June 2008 to December 2015. I am coping with memories of intense events, and sights, so I have a few learning handicaps. I fight with P.T.S.D. (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), T.B.I. (Traumatic Brain Injury), which hinders my short-term memory, active listening ability, and educational retention. My memory contains blank spots of my life so I don’t remember what I was taught in school for writing and reading. However, I remember the way the Army taught me. I have composed a plethora of classified, and unclassified materials; award documents to lawfully sworn statements. I do have a few habits like writing the date in D/M/Y format.

When I was a little girl I loved to write, my father would give me silly little writing prompts and I would write short paragraphs of made up scenarios. My father really encouraged my writing at an early age, but as I grew a little bit older I realize that I struggled with it a lot. I can remember my very first personal journal. The stuff I would write was so underdeveloped, because I was so young but I didn’t care at the time. As I grew older, I became fond of roleplaying online on websites or in video games such as World of Warcraft. I continued to roleplay through high school at the same time trying to do the school work my teachers were giving me. My teachers knew I was struggling at the time and didn’t take much interest in helping

It is always complicated writing and expressing in a language that is different from mine. I most of the time have an idea that I want to write about, but I know the difficulties that I am going to face while writing such as having mistakes in grammar structures, or maybe not knowing how to basically order my idea in the right way to let the reader grasp it easily.

As my mother and I were driving on a horrendously windy day, I howled something that was incomprehensible. She stopped the vehicle in bewilderment and outrage, and immediately questioned me for the reasoning of this action. All I could do was stand and point in awe of what I was witnessing. She immediately discovered the bird too, just sitting in a long-dead cornfield. The ruckus startled the Bald Eagle, and began to fly away. My mother attempted to draw out her phone to take a picture of the beautiful bird, only to lose control of the device, dropping it on the vehicle’s floor. The marvelous bird flew directly above our vehicle, merely feet away, leaving me to this day striving to understand and appreciate all this country has provided me.

My relationship with writing would be described as a complicated relationship. I have always had cruddy luck with obtaining the “superb” English teachers, and was typically stuck with the “inadequate” English teacher. This “inadequate” teacher was typically the one with little to no experience, but would grade harshly with the mindset of a Ph.D. English professor. So, my relationship with writing has steadily gone to disheartening lows. These English teachers typically prescribed writing assignments of critical analysis. While I believe critical analysis should be taught to students because of the benefits due to the fact that it can be applied to a variety of subjects that the student may be taking, I still believe that a few people lean towards writing creatively. I have always been a voracious reader, but it doesn’t seem to reflect in my writing because all the writing that I have been doing up to this point has been critical analysis of other literature. I like to read fiction and enjoy it without complicating it. This is also the reason I like to read historical and science fiction.

I express myself through writing. My entire life I’ve had a big imagination that made it hard to express myself vocally; my thoughts scatter around in my mind and can usually only be properly brought to life on paper. Of course, I'm comfortable speaking to people and in front of people- but without the power of revision and addition, it’s hard to say what I feel needs to be said. I enjoy writing because I can let everything out on a piece of paper or a computer screen and it doesn’t need to make sense until I want it to make sense. My favorite genres to write are also my favorite to read, fiction and fantasy. With these genres' I can create my own world where everything is what I need it to be, I can create my own characters and give them unique

They say that the pen is mightier than the sword, why so? For ages writing has been used to move people, start revolutions, confess a love for another, express hatred for an enemy, etc. Writing is one of the foundations of ancient and modern society. Writing is forever.

All the years i’ve been in school i’ve always hated writing. Writing was one of my worst subject to do it was hard and challenging. But there was one i had to learn to write cause i will need write my whole life. I always sucked at writing i could never spell or write. I would always fail on my essays and other writing things i had to do. My mom will make me write all day long until i remembered how to write and spell.

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