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It's one of those "how I've grown as a writer" essays.
I had trouble trying to approach the idea of writing about my growth as a writer, because writing can't be measured with conventional methods. And addressing the question how have I grown as a writer is more opinion. I decided to look through all my old pieces. After reviewing all my old pieces I figured out how my writing had grown.
I decided it would be easier to observe my writing piece by piece, last year I wrote some pretty crappy stories, mainly because I don't know what I am doing when I write a story so I would just ramble on about one thing for a few page then it would randomly jump to the next part of the story. But in my latest story "ZeeBees" I was able to make the story flow easily. I think this is because it focused on one specific thing to tell a story about rather than one of my previous story that had about four different settings. I believe that was the problem with the story because during each of the four scenes the story would just go on and on. Nevertheless, the transitions between scenes where quick, that made the story somewhat like a yo-yo.
My free write piece "Vocab. Thanksgiving" was my favorite piece this year because I enjoyed writing it, and it turned out to be an excellent piece of poetry. This poem took less time than all my other pieces that I wrote this year and it was easier to write. The piece that I liked the least was "Winter" I had to force myself to write the whole thing over one night, which was really annoying and pissed me off. A moment where I truly discovered something about myself was after I had my teacher conference about the piece "ZeeBees" when I thought how are you supposed to show something with writing, and that is the exact moment I realized that my writing sucked. This year I have learned not to use the word "quote" I also learned that the word quote goes in quotes when writing about how you aren't supposed to use it in an analytical paper. I also improved my vocabulary with the weakly vocabulary quizzes. But one thing that I will remember to do is show don't tell, because we said to do it a hell of a lot.
This year of writing really showed me how much I don't care about writing because even if I spend my time writing my piece and getting peer conferences I'm still going to end up changing as few things as possible so I can finish the piece as soon as possible. Getting back on track to my piece by piece analysis my last paper appropriately titled "Analysis of Macbeth" is an analysis of the play Macbeth which I believe is one of my better analytical papers but one of the worst papers in my portfolio. The things I like about my analysis of Macbeth was the fact that it had a unique concept and it's supported by quotes. This year was successful from my viewpoint; I turned in every paper on time got average grades. When it comes down to writing the only reason I am writing is because I have to for school otherwise I would have no reason to write papers, although I do find great enjoyment in reading books and then writing analytical papers about them.
Through my high school years, my writing has improved a lot. However, this year I learned that the best thing to do when writing is to B.S. your way through the assignment. Because if you want to fill up the required space you need to, you can do one of two things write a real paper and spend half a day writing it or you can B.S. your way through the paper like I did with this paper.
Brother: i want to include that awsome story you showed me about whalt whitman (I know some of you have seen this link)
He's turning this in. Have I mentioned that he's my hero? (And yes, I did inform him that "weakly" should be "weekly")
I had trouble trying to approach the idea of writing about my growth as a writer, because writing can't be measured with conventional methods. And addressing the question how have I grown as a writer is more opinion. I decided to look through all my old pieces. After reviewing all my old pieces I figured out how my writing had grown.
I decided it would be easier to observe my writing piece by piece, last year I wrote some pretty crappy stories, mainly because I don't know what I am doing when I write a story so I would just ramble on about one thing for a few page then it would randomly jump to the next part of the story. But in my latest story "ZeeBees" I was able to make the story flow easily. I think this is because it focused on one specific thing to tell a story about rather than one of my previous story that had about four different settings. I believe that was the problem with the story because during each of the four scenes the story would just go on and on. Nevertheless, the transitions between scenes where quick, that made the story somewhat like a yo-yo.
My free write piece "Vocab. Thanksgiving" was my favorite piece this year because I enjoyed writing it, and it turned out to be an excellent piece of poetry. This poem took less time than all my other pieces that I wrote this year and it was easier to write. The piece that I liked the least was "Winter" I had to force myself to write the whole thing over one night, which was really annoying and pissed me off. A moment where I truly discovered something about myself was after I had my teacher conference about the piece "ZeeBees" when I thought how are you supposed to show something with writing, and that is the exact moment I realized that my writing sucked. This year I have learned not to use the word "quote" I also learned that the word quote goes in quotes when writing about how you aren't supposed to use it in an analytical paper. I also improved my vocabulary with the weakly vocabulary quizzes. But one thing that I will remember to do is show don't tell, because we said to do it a hell of a lot.
This year of writing really showed me how much I don't care about writing because even if I spend my time writing my piece and getting peer conferences I'm still going to end up changing as few things as possible so I can finish the piece as soon as possible. Getting back on track to my piece by piece analysis my last paper appropriately titled "Analysis of Macbeth" is an analysis of the play Macbeth which I believe is one of my better analytical papers but one of the worst papers in my portfolio. The things I like about my analysis of Macbeth was the fact that it had a unique concept and it's supported by quotes. This year was successful from my viewpoint; I turned in every paper on time got average grades. When it comes down to writing the only reason I am writing is because I have to for school otherwise I would have no reason to write papers, although I do find great enjoyment in reading books and then writing analytical papers about them.
Through my high school years, my writing has improved a lot. However, this year I learned that the best thing to do when writing is to B.S. your way through the assignment. Because if you want to fill up the required space you need to, you can do one of two things write a real paper and spend half a day writing it or you can B.S. your way through the paper like I did with this paper.
Brother: i want to include that awsome story you showed me about whalt whitman (I know some of you have seen this link)
He's turning this in. Have I mentioned that he's my hero? (And yes, I did inform him that "weakly" should be "weekly")
