Welcome to my creative writing blog! This blog provides a collection of samples of my writing, ranging from Freshman year through Senior year. The purpose of this blog is to explore my growth as a writer and reflect on the years past.
As a whole, I believe that my main improvement was picking topics to write about. As I read through my old work, I found really strange topics, and realized that the writing wasn't all bad, but because of the topic I was writing about, the piece came across as basically awful.
Other improvements include finding my own voice, incorporating dialogue more (and making that dialogue somewhat more realistic), and, of course, better grammar and sentence structure. My greatest catalysts for my growth was my teacher edits on writing workshop pieces. Sophomore and Senior year, I had teachers that gave great feedback. If there was something wrong with my work, they didn't sugar-coat it and say "Oh, it looks great. Good effort." But rather, they told you exactly what was wrong and what needed to be improved. I also had friends that really helped by editing my work and giving me helpful constructive criticism.
With my writing improving every time I put a pen to paper (or at least, as it hopefully improves), I continue to experiment with different themes and styles, and I hope to be able to find that genre that I can really write about and include more dialogue rather than narrating the whole piece.
With that, enjoy!
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