My Journey as a Writer

Over the past three weeks I have definitely grown as a a writer from my Feature Writing class. I feel like having such a fast paced class has allowed me to be more creative with my writing because I am learning lessons  and remembering mechanisms to apply to my next article. The phrase, “practice makes perfect” definitely stands when it comes to the progression of my writing abilities over the past few weeks.

            I now feel more comfortable writing and feel like my articles flow better and the ideas come more natural because I am doing some form of writing each day. With that said there are many areas that I need to work on. I find  myself being repetitive in my writing using words such as, ‘however’ and ‘therefore.’ I also find myself attempting to sit down and write my pieces in one fell swoop. By doing this I thing that this is preventing me from losing my train of thought or transitions to other topics. I think that if I give myself a break between my writing it will aid the flow of the piece and the accuracy of the grammar. Another idea would to write down the main ideas and the important transitions that pop into my head and re-visit them later to add more and gradually build the piece up to its full potential.

            The fun part about writing is the fact that I get to express myself through my writing style, not necessarily writing about myself. I think it is interesting to write a piece about something that doesn’t sound interesting, but putting my own twist on it to make it alluring to readers.

            In the end, I want people to read my writing and enjoy it. I also want them to be able to read something written by me and know that I am the author without that information provided to them. Obviously this would be difficult, but it is a lofty but achievable goal to set for myself! What draws you in to an article? What mechanisms turn you off?