Dezerae Snow Reflection

When working out, whether that be your physical body or your skills, it is important to push yourself, and that is exactly what I did when I wrote this paper. When the entirety of my writing education has been focused on academic writing, it makes it difficult to switch to the memoir writing that is required for this class. Since this form of writing is difficult in it’s own right, it is even more daunting to write about the experience of someone else. When I was assigned to my partner, Dezerae Snow, I knew that I was going to be in for a challenge. I knew from the previous paper conferences that her writing style consisted of short paragraphs and sentences as well as usual language that all culminated into a rather informal writing style,
I found myself constantly making changes to correct terminology that I had gotten wrong or having to be taught about certain concepts because I need to know why something was significant to the story. This technical knowledge presented a challenge no dissimilar from the emotional aspects of this piece. Furthermore, my own writing has a tendency to focus on thoughts and emotions, but it can be uncomfortable to focus on such things when I am writing from another person’s point of view. I didn’t want to misrepresent what Dezerae was feeling during a time that was so vital to her becoming the person that she is now. It is for this reason that I centered in on the emotional upheaval that she experienced. When she started the story she told my that it was “the only other occasion that her life had taken a complete one-eighty,” and this is what I wanted to depict in my writing. I wanted the reader to see that it alter who she was, and I was delighted that Dezerae had noticed this in my writing. Through our email correspondences, I sent her my paper and she explained that she enjoying my expression of this emotional upheaval she