Me the Writer

When it comes to writing anything it tends to come with ease to me. I’m really lucky since I know many people struggle with writing or even putting their ideas down on paper. However, I must admit that sometimes it can be frustrating to not have the right words to express what is going on in my crazy head.  I think that the free writes we had to do for this class were a way to warm up our train of thoughts in order to be able to write a great essay. With my past English and even history classes I’ve gotten thrown an essay out of the blue and expected to have a beautiful masterpiece by the time I was done. Of course, I always put my best to whatever I was writing and even if I didn’t have anything to warm me up, but in this class I was able to have this luxury which I think played a huge part in the out come of my final drafts. The thing that I enjoyed the most was that I was bale to let my thoughts flow freely with out having to worry about my spelling or if everything sounded grammatically correct.

As to the blogs I found them to be more fun since I had only one thing that I can elaborate on, opposed to only ten minutes on a free write. I would get some of my ideas from my free writes though, like the ones from the holidays. I was able to have separate things from like three or four free writes that contributed to the make up of one blog post. The only thing that was clearly different was that I also had to include pictures and hyperlinks, which irritated me at times because I would want to find the best image possible and sometimes it would take me more time than usual.Over all, these mini writing assignments were away to write with out worrying if they are on topic especially mine since they don’t really have a clear theme. They just look like pieces of writing that were put together from different areas of my life, which is what they were in the end of the day. I didn’t seem to stress too much when it came to either, but if I had left them to last minute or had to catch up to the number I needed by the end of the week I would start to rush. Even though sometimes my free writes seemed irrelevant to the things we were doing in the class by the time we were done with a certain section I it would make sense since it would connect back to the essay we might have been doing at that moment.

Having this class opened my eyes to the different types of writing I can do, as well as showed me that I am not limited to the things that I learned in high school. I think its unfair the way teachers teach English because they close the minds of creative writers by telling them that they are not writing the wright way, when in reality there is no right way to write as long as you have a purpose. I will take all the lessons I’ve learned since I can and will apply them to the rest of my writing forever.

Thanks Caitlin!