My Writing Experience

Writing has always played a salient role in my life. I use writing as a way to express myself and share my thoughts and ideas. My first major writing assignment made me realize the crucialness writing. I was in my sixth grade Language Arts class when my teacher assigned us a huge poetry project. We had to write a book featuring different types of poems (i.e. haikus, limerick), while also incorporating figurative language. Up until that point, I loathed having to write. It didn’t matter what kind of writing it was, I did not want to do it. However, that poetry assignment changed everything.

For the first time in my educational journey, we were allowed to write about whatever we wanted. It wasn’t a matter of being given a prompt and told to write based on that. We had total freedom regarding the topic we were writing poems about. To this day, that assignment has been my favorite one from all my years of school. Completing that poetry assignment helped me realize that writing is an amazing gift to mankind. Writing provides us with an outlet to truly and freely express ourselves. It’s something for everyone, there is no criterion to write (except a pen and paper). I realized that the purpose of writing wasn’t just to meet the word requirement or have perfect grammar,

My sixth grade poetry project definitely changed my idea of what makes for good writing. My teacher encouraged creativity over perfection. She wanted to show us that writing was fun and exciting. Prior to that experience, I thought the only components for good writing were proper grammar, no spelling mistakes, and meeting the word/page requirement. I perceived that good writing entails conveying yourself in an honest way. Passive writing for the sake of wrapping up an assignment doesn’t accurately portray one’s ability, thoughts, or ideas as a writer. I think a lot of people my age need to know that writing doesn’t always revolve around