Guidance from teachers is essential and should never be taken for granted by students when writing. Writing is particularly complicated when your seeking to dive in on your own, but with tools that …show more content…
One method I was encouraged to use by a previous teacher was the Mnemonics Method. Writer James Fenton once said, “Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory.” What the teaching of mnemonics is trying to attain is to help students remember words and phrases by matching them with something else. For example, the Latin word for stop is prohibere. You can scan the first six letters of prohibere and see that it’s aligned with how you would spell prohibit, which means to outlaw or stop something completely. Another recommendation given to me as a young adult was to find a happy place before I would go into the writing stages. Things that you can do before writing a story to revitalize dopamine levels could include watching a comedic video, relaxing in cool or warm water or even read a few pages of a book you enjoy. The benefits of increasing your happiness are invaluable to both your health and the works you do outside yourself. As a young adult, I was pressured to challenge myself more with the books I was reading. In one of my