Personal Narrative: My Growth As A Writer

Throughout the year there have been many ups and downs, mistakes, and accomplishments. Because of these events people can grow as writers and can learn more about the world around them through this media. Over the year I have shown that I have been on both sides of the spectrum of great to unorthodox.

One of my weaknesses as a writer is getting the motivation to actually write. I often wait till the last minute to finish writing something and it often shows in my pieces. Many of my works have a hastily written conclusion with no transition from the previous paragraph. Even while I was writing it, I would notice, but I wouldn’t do anything I would just think as if it was just meant to be. In the timed writing for the summer reading, my conclusion

In my summer, timed writing piece I was very brief and uninformative. I was writing just to finish the essay rather than write a good piece for someone to read. Such as, “Finny struggles believing that Gene did this to him”. I could have written it as, Finny struggled to understand why Gene would do something like that to him, and even denies that he did it in the first place. There was a lot I could have fixed in that essay, but I chose not to because I didn’t want to spend any more time on it. In my most recent timed writing my word choice is limited and is only written to get my point across “People are naturally kind creatures. We are social beings who can share things and not fight all the time.”. I don’t have any evidence to back this statement up and I could have made it flow better. Throughout the year I seemed to get better in some places and get worse in the places where I already was good at. Timeliness was also something I struggled with throughout the year and I am very thankful for all the extensions I got and for Mrs Moore to be so understanding. I think I may have grown a little bit now that I think about it more, but I still think I can do