“Myself as a writer.” I don’t consider myself a very good writer. I write when I am made to or when I have something that I need to say that I can’t just tell someone. I keep a diary. Usually my diary is just a record of what I have done that day.
It’s not so much about my feelings. I don’t really like talking about my feelings, usually because most of the time I am confused about what exactly I am feeling. I tend to keep the feelings that I do have to myself, to protect myself from getting hurt. I didn’t have that many close friends in high school. I always was just kind of there. I was no one important.
Everyone seems to have his or her place in this world of high school and it seemed that my place was on the outside that I didn’t fit into this puzzle. I think that that experiences in high school pretty much defines much of my life. It definitely affects my writing. You are supposed to find security in high school, but those four years leave me feeling pretty empty and alone.
I have very little self-esteem and am constantly feeling not good enough. These are the feelings that I have hid from the world. I can’t let people see the pain inside of me for fear that I will be even less accepted than I am now. I think a lot of my feelings of aloneness and semi-depression come from losing a few friends of mine who used to be really close to me. You learn to trust people, and when they leave and they are no longer there for you than their being in your life could cause more harm than good. I had a different best friend almost every year during my childhood.
I met my best friend when I was 3. I moved into a new house and met Crista the first day that I moved in. When she was in fourth grade her family decided to move. During this time, she had been the main person that I hung out with, so this was a huge change fore me.
So I spent basically a year and a half with very few friends. I moved to a new school half way through sixth grade. I didn’t ever find a real place there. I met my best friend Stacey when I first moved to my new middle school. We stayed friends throughout middle school, but she had a lot of family problems and she ended dup moving away and I didn’t even know she was leaving until after she was gone.
In a time like middle school for something like that happen is awful. I got depressed after that happened and I remember just locking myself in my room and just crying. I thought that things would never get better. When I started my high school, I found my current best friend, Marie. We are still friends to this day; she just left for college at George Mason.
So once again I’m not with my best friend. I’m not trying to make my life all depressing because it hasn’t been all bad. And I realize that people have had things a lot worse happen to them, in their lives, and I should be thankful for what I have. But no matter what I have I just never seem truly happy. I always have this front up, and it seems like everything is going great, but deep inside, I’m falling apart. This comes out in my writing, and I think that writing is a good release from all of this.
I always try to do my best when it comes to my class work and my writing, but I know that my writing isn’t the best by any means. I always find it important to the best job that I can do, on school work and also in life. I think that a lot of what got me through writing papers in middle and high school was my mom. She was so great about reading over and correcting my papers. She stayed up many nights doing that for me. Not because she had to, but because she wanted to help me.
There were so many other things she could have been doing, but instead she was helping me, and that means a lot to me. I’m kind of nervous about doing this all on my own. I’m excited thought o see what I can do on my own. I am so excited about starting new here, with a clean slate. I think that this fresh start is exactly what I needed.
I can be whoever I want to be here, and redefine myself, based on my terms, and not let other people’s opinions of my run my life. I don’t really have one favorite writer who I like to read, but I have several authors who I really enjoy. I think that seeing their writing styles helps you to develop your own style and also increases your vocabulary, which will enhance your writing. One of my favorite authors is Stephen King. He is absolutely wonderful. His style just brings everything to life, for me anyways.
He really captures his readers and makes you not want to put the novel down. Another one of my favorite authors is John Grisham. I don’t read as often as I should, but when I find a good author, I just can’t put his books down. They just capture you in their world of fiction, and it is a nice escape from the everyday pressures of life and what is going on around you.
When writing I usually write about what know and what I like. I don’t really get into writing a research paper, but if I’m writing about a personal experience or something along those lines I can really get into it. I have some unique things in my life that are interesting for me to write about. One thing that I really like writing about are my family and my friends. I think that a lot of my problems with my writing is that I can’ find things to write about that interest me and I think that sometimes I go off topic or I am unorganized in my thought process.
I am excited about taking this class though because I think that this will help me improve my writing and find my own “voice” as a writer. In high school I didn’t consider myself that great of a writer, but I always seemed get decent grades on what I wrote. I mean I might just not be giving myself enough credit on my writing. I’m not really sure; I guess I don’t really think that I do anything that greatly. A lot of people did want my help writing their papers in high school, so I guess I couldn’t have been but such a horrible writer. In high school, the most important things to me weren’t the people, the experiences, the parties or any of that; I prided myself on my work.
Now that isn’t all bad because it got me the grades to get into my dream school, but I think that I lost of what could have been a great four years of my life. I’m glad that I’ve had that experience though because now I realize you need balance. You can have fun and do you school work too, you just have to stay organized and on top of things. I’m really hoping that this will be a great five years for me, and that my writing will improve over the course of this semester..