Hits and Misses

This year I have done a lot more structured essays like a literary analysis and a personal narrative. Both of these essays were a new experience to me because I was so used to writing creative essays along with comparing and contrasting essays, and expository essays. So, this year has been a very developmental year for me in the writing department, but I did have some "hits and misses."

What I consider as a hit for my writing is any piece of writing that I feel I was able to have a flow of ideas, get my point across, tell an interesting story within those ideas, and learned a considerable amount about that writing style. So my hits this year have been blog posts and the personal narrative. Blog posts have allowed me to really develop my ideas into a constant flow and end at a good point. I never had written a blog post until this year, so doing two posts almost every week allows me to take some pride in these blog posts. The personal narrative called for writing skills that are my strong suit considering that it was more on the creative side. The vivid imagery that calls for telling a story is something that I enjoy and I learned a lot about how to do that even better. I also got my point across very strongly in that essay and can now write a personal narrative without looking for a template or second guessing myself.

The misses of the year are papers that tortured me and that I truly struggled with, which are the literary analysis and history paper. These papers were very structured and you had to write it a certain way with certain punctuation and evidence. I personally did not enjoy it at all. I struggled to string my ideas together and really drive home my point. Also, they required to much time and pre-writing and I lost my interest before we even started to actually write the paper. All in all, they were not my best papers and defiantly my "misses."