Personal Narrative: My Critical Inner Voice
The critical inner voice is the part of us that has turned against ourselves. This critical voice is the negative side to our personality that is opposed to our ongoing development. This voice encourages self-defeating and self-destructive behavior; thus, diminishing self-esteem.
I have a critical inner voice, when I write. She insists on negative thoughts and has a negative attitude towards my work. Amanda, my critical inner voice, is my judgemental advisor; she critiques every move I make in my writing.
Today is a good day, I get out of work at three and the rest of the day is all mine!
I drove to a local coffee shop after work, preparing myself to crank out all my assignments for the next day. It’s calm, the temperature is …show more content…
“No.”
What if I cha –
“No. It’s wrong. It’s all wrong. You don’t sound smart enough. Why did you use the word ‘also’ when you could have used a more sophisticated synonym, like ‘furthermore,’ or ‘additionally.’ Do you want them to think you’ve only taken middle school level english? Spice it up.”
Throughout the story, the author frequently uses. . .
“Wow, did you pull that straight out of an analysis essay template? You’re so dry when you write.”
Sometimes Amanda drains all my creative energy out of me. Most of the time, I end up sitting there staring at my computer screen. Practically brain dead and forcing the content out on paper.
“Open up the thesaurus, maybe that will help you. Your grammar is OK in that sentence but your word choice just isn’t exciting. Devyn, this is college now, they expect your writing to be more mature than this. What is this? Do you even know where you’re going with this?”
Not necessarily, I get all my thoughts out on paper first and after revising, I eventually have something with the potential to be good.
“Nothing you write is ever going to be ‘good’ enough to take you any further than getting an A in your english classes.”
I know. .
I have a critical inner voice, when I write. She insists on negative thoughts and has a negative attitude towards my work. Amanda, my critical inner voice, is my judgemental advisor; she critiques every move I make in my writing.
Today is a good day, I get out of work at three and the rest of the day is all mine!
I drove to a local coffee shop after work, preparing myself to crank out all my assignments for the next day. It’s calm, the temperature is …show more content…
“No.”
What if I cha –
“No. It’s wrong. It’s all wrong. You don’t sound smart enough. Why did you use the word ‘also’ when you could have used a more sophisticated synonym, like ‘furthermore,’ or ‘additionally.’ Do you want them to think you’ve only taken middle school level english? Spice it up.”
Throughout the story, the author frequently uses. . .
“Wow, did you pull that straight out of an analysis essay template? You’re so dry when you write.”
Sometimes Amanda drains all my creative energy out of me. Most of the time, I end up sitting there staring at my computer screen. Practically brain dead and forcing the content out on paper.
“Open up the thesaurus, maybe that will help you. Your grammar is OK in that sentence but your word choice just isn’t exciting. Devyn, this is college now, they expect your writing to be more mature than this. What is this? Do you even know where you’re going with this?”
Not necessarily, I get all my thoughts out on paper first and after revising, I eventually have something with the potential to be good.
“Nothing you write is ever going to be ‘good’ enough to take you any further than getting an A in your english classes.”
I know. .