Reflective Essay: Improving My Writing Skills

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When I began to write, I fund the writing process a really slow, time consuming, and difficult task. First, because I wasn't writing in my first language and I was learning how to conjugate words and use a more advance vocabulary. Second, I didn't like to write, writing essays about something that was not interesting for me was really distracting and difficult to achieve. If my life were in the hands of my writing skills, I would be death long time. Even though, it was tough for me, I always tried to do my best. I have improved my writing skills since I came to this country with help of teachers and long periods of practicing. One thing that helped me was my obsession with rereading my work, I read as many times as possible what I'm writing.

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