My Writing Experience Essay

Many people consider writing fairly easy, mainly because they have never done any serious writing themselves. Others compare it to arithmetic and science, but anyone who has been to writing class like I was for a year and a half knows that it is not exactly a walk in the park. Unlike arithmetic and the sciences, writing is an art and while others are busy stating facts and manipulating numbers, writing is actually a display of creativity. The writer is often required to come up with new ideas every time they write in order to capture the readers’ attention.

While I attended writing classes in college, there were many challenges that I had to face. I believe they are the same challenges that many writers face today in colleges all over the world. Nevertheless, I was able to graduate, albeit not without some difficulties. The main challenge was finding new ideas to write about. As a writer, a great level of creativity is needed. A writer is expected to come up with a new idea either in form of a fresh plot, an original or unique style of writing or an entirely different way of presenting their ideas if they want to score highly or have a successful career. While science and arithmetic revolves around understanding already existing ideas, writing depends more on creativity.
It is not surprising that one can have an idea and fail to find the correct words to put it down on paper. Suppose one is writing about an emotional experience, for instance. It may be difficult or even impossible to bring out the intensity of feelings so that the reader can feel them too, or explain the impact that they had on the character who felt them. Few writers can find the right words to explain a phenomenon so vividly that the reader can actually visualize the