What I Have Learned About Myself as a Writer This Year

In just one year, I have grown an adequate amount as a writer. I think of my writing this year as a blossoming flower. At the beginning of the year, I am getting a sense as to how I write, and the expectations required for my writing. I am a seed. Towards the middle of the year, I grow almost to my full capacity and feel that my writing is strong and that this is my best work. Around February is where I start to tremble down because this is around the time when my new learnings in all subjects are the most vigorous, and I just cannot put all of my attention and time to my writings. Lastly, near late April is where I am withering because I can feel summer so close. My patience is much lower than the beginning of the year, and I just want to get all my assignments over with because summer is in less than a month.

If I have learned anything about myself as a writer this year; first, it’s that I have little patience. I can only do so much of my essays at a time before I get bored and add unnecessary sentences. For my research essay especially, I have learned to only allow myself an hour to an hour and a half on focused, qualitative writing. If I go beyond this time, I have sentences that are not supporting my thesis, and I simply do not need these sentences. Lastly, I have learned that I know what I want to say, but I need to outline it first. In so many scenarios, I had the perfect argument or fact, and once I wrote it out, it made no sense. If I even do a simple brainstorming map, that helps. This also leads me to learn that I am a very organized person when it comes to schoolwork. Writing has not only taught me the traits of good writing, or even how to make your writing sound more significant, but it also revealed a little bit about myself.