I never enjoyed writing, I never thought i was good at writing , and tried to avoid it at all costs. I’ve had a very bumpy road in my days of writing, and have received a lot of honest feed back .
“There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white” - Rebecca Solnit. This quote deeply describes my relationship with writing. All of my life i’ve been infatuated with programming, science, and mathematics. I knew that a program that i wrote would do exactly as i told the computer to do, and the result we be the same every time. Writing essays were very up and down for me. Whenever i felt an essay was amazing it was terrible. I knew early on that i needed to change my robotic mindset , and expand my thinking when …show more content…
Thought my middles school years , essays were simple. I wrote essays , just like i wrote computer programs, and i would still revive a good grade. My essays were very robotic, and lacked creativity, as well as structure, but as long as the paper met requirements thats all that mattered. I thought that this was great , i didn't have to try to hard to recive a good grade on an essay, but I was in for a rude awakening. These three years of middle school did not prepare me for the rigors of high school english.
As I became more mature, my creativity blossomed. I quickly became a very creative person, so when writing I expressed every thought that came to mind. There was just one problem. I didn't have a balance between being creative , and being too creative. Although i had left the robotic writing style, i now had a new issue of being too creative. I realized quickly, when i entered my freshman year in high school , that sometimes it isn't about what you write, but how you write it. I went to a high school named Watkins