I have noticed that my writing has changed this semester. In High School, I couldn’t just start typing a paper right when I was givin a topic. But once I started ENG 105 I am getting a little more comfortable about writing. It’s making me express my feelings, especially in the blogs on how the writing goes for us.
On Friday, we were assigned to do a horror story and come up with catchy lines and over-all make it scary. The story could be anything we wanted and it was going into a contest. The prize was just a homework pass, and the students were buzzing their brains trying to make their stories perfect in order to win. Well my first feeling was I suck at stories, how can I do this? Well my paper didn’t get very far because I had some problems thinking of a great topic. The substitute was going around and seeing how everyone was doing and I had nothing. He gave me ideas and I tried to go along with it. I noticed there were a few others that were having problems and they were going to put this assignment off too. But after I thought about it, we could have used our free homework pass we got from Stephanie but I thought I could use that for a “harder assignment” because it wasn’t too hard to think of a horror story. The subs idea for the horror story didn’t work out like I wanted it to so I changed it.
I decided I’ll try to do this at home because it was due that Monday. Come to realize, after I did this story I am a better writer at home instead of in the classroom. It was so much easier for me to sit on my laptop and go on and on with my horror story. I think its kinda crazy that I can’t just write up a paper while in class but I can at home. Everybody is different on their writing techniques so I’m hoping by the end of this semester I will over come my problem with writing and develop my papers in class without writing them at home.
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I'm kind of the same way... I come up with more ideas at home instead of in class..but if i have to i can write in class it just takes me longer to think of things. Keep working at it..You'll get it
ReplyDeletei agree that is was difficult to come up with ideas for papers we have...in class work is even harder to come up with...everything will get better i think.
ReplyDeleteBri, It's harder for me to write "at school" than in the comfort of my home, but I push myself to do so sometimes so I don't have so much "homework." I'd like us to think about why that is...
ReplyDelete(I liked your horror short story!)