Reflection

Delmy Del Cid

Mrs.DeFeo

Reflection

Being a writer doesn’t show that a person has talent, but sometimes it’s a takes writer to have a creative mind. I consider myself a poor writer because I don’t have the talent or anything like that, but I am very creative. Myself as a writer, I am a fictional, fairytale, romance writer. I write about impossible love, sometimes even some experiences that happened in my life and I add fictional settings.

I like to write about impossible things that can’t happen in the real world, but sometimes “The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like tape most of the time” that was used by author Anne Lamott, “Shitty first Drafts.” This quote has a lot of meaning to me and a writer because something words, paragraphs and sentences don’t pop up in my head and I write them down. I take at least 5-10 minutes to write a first paragraph. I consider myself as a writer to be poor because writing anything is just sometimes difficult for me to do. Coming up with a thesis statement, analysising quotes, I find that all difficult to do and it’s because I don’t have that talent. Also I consider myself a poor writer because sometimes my sentence structure is poor, my grammatical points are weak. My fears of being a writer would have to struggle with a sentence that sounds to me as perfect when it’s not. Also my fears if writing would be writing about something and then forgetting about it in less than a minute.

My goals as a writer would be to improve my sentence structure, be more confident in myself since I don’t have that and just being a more careful writer un where I can write and just keep writing non-stop and have a descent structure of my writing. “By which I mean not a “good” writer or a “bad” writer but simply a writer, a person whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper.” Author Joan Didion “Why I Write” uses this quote to explain that no one needs to be a good or bad writer but you can keep writing about whatever on pieces of paper and it will be fine. I agree with this because I write about anything sometimes without it being wrong or having to deal with grammatical errors or anything because its my writing and I know what I wrote about and no one can change that.

Being a writer also involves making errors and mistakes. One of my critics would be I because if I reread anything I had written and it doesn’t sound good at all, I change almost the whole thing and rewrite it all over again. The most important thing that I would like to communicate in my writing would be that no one is perfect and that anyone can write whatever they want to write. One of my habits would be writing proper and just be myself when I write and stay focus on what I am suppose to write and support it with enough evidence. Being honest I don’t know where I see myself writing because writing isn’t my thing.