Just moments before writing this post, I had written a long post about this topic. I was typing so fast that my hand was cramping up and my answer was getting very deep. But suddenly I stopped, and looked at what I had written and hated it. Even though all I was doing was speaking from the mind, I hated everything I had written. So, I highlighted the whole thing and pressed the delete button. All that was left was a blank screen. I had to walk away from the computer for a few minutes to re group myself. For some reason I had anger towards this little white screen in front of me.
It is the moments like this that shocks me the most about my writing. I am shock by how my writing has evolved throughout my years in high school. I want to say that I am speechless, because I really am, but if I were to explain how this all occurred, I would have to rewind and go back to my freshman year. I would have never found myself deleting something I had just spent time working on. I would have said it was time wasted and I have bigger and better things to do with my extra time. So being the freshman that I was, I continued working this crappy piece of work I called writing. And if we were to move forward one more year to my sophomore english class, we would find that my mindset towards writing would still be the same. I didn't care about the language of writing at all, let alone know anything about it. I just cared about pressing the print button and turning the assignment in.
It wan't until my junior year that things really started to change. I was introduced to a different style of writing that no english teacher had ever taught me before. This style was to just write. It seems simple but yet in the moment it was so unbelievably crazy to me. How can one simply just write? How can anyone just sit there and type while simultaneously speaking their mind? It was crazy to me. So when that first essay came around, I tried and failed miserably. I didn't necessarily fail in the eyes of the teacher, but I failed within my own eyes. There has never been one essay that I had written from that point that I really liked. I always hated my writing.
The next essay that came around I decided to experiment a little and simply just write what came to my mind and that was it. That essay was one of the best essays I had ever written. And the best thing about it was that I was proud. I had written something that was truly me.
Form that point on, and continuing on to this post and all of my other blog posts, I write through my mind. When something comes to me I put it in words that make sense to me in my mind. These words group together to form a language that I love to read. I love reading my own writing. But you wouldn't find me saying that my freshman year. I didn't have the thinking skills that I have now a days. But even though I have developed a better sense of writing, I am no where near perfection, no one ever is. In order to get me closer to this state of perfection, I need to work on writing more freely. I need to stop giving into what people want me to write about and start writing on what I think is appropriate to write about. I need to take risks. I want to be a writer with complete freedom. But in order to accomplish what is need, I have to simply just write.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Blogging Around
Isana P.
In Isana's blog post, she talks about this unique relationship between how to write well and how to live well. She did tied this relationship together by comparing "The Sea of Information" and the senior year of high school. This relationship was well described and written out for a reader to understand the point Isana was trying to get across.
"When reading this post, I must say, I thought for just a second that you were reading my mind. This issue of being a senior in high school and making all these major decision is something that bothers me every single day. How am I supposed to look into the future and see what I wanna be in 5years? In 20 years? It just really blows my mind. However, what I like most about your post was how you connected writing with life in general. This kind of connection is something I have never even considered, maybe this being because I am not one who finds joy in writing so I never really look at it as a way to relate to living a good life. Now, even though I may not be the best writer or even find it to be my number one hobby, I still find this connection fascinating. The way you explain how when you write you find this certain spark and it leads you, it guides you to a place where you know is where you are supposed to go and connect that to finding a spark in life and having that lead you towards your destination. I just found I could relate to that 100%. In this post you were really preaching to the crowd and it's something you should be proud of because I really enjoyed it."
Vika P.
In Vika's blog she connect Born Into Brothels to her own photography. She showed this connection by not only talking about how her own life connects to the kids' in the brothels, but she also showed this by actually showing us viewers actual photographs she took to help us understand her connections on a much higher level of comprehension.
"I would like to just start out by saying one simple word; wow. Your pictures are amazing. For some odd reason, or maybe it's not odd at all, but I find photography to be one of the coolest things anyone has ever invented. I'm sure your probably saying "well duh it's the coolest thing" because you are so passionate about it. And your passion is the exact thing that drew me into your blog, or should I say blogs. It is hard for me to just comment on one blog, so while i have the chance I would like to say that both of your blogs were very interesting the way you incorporated your own photography. I was confused whether I like the beautiful photos or the writing itself. However, as I write this I have come to realize that it is both the writing and the pictures together that creates these blogs. The way you explain your blog like your having a conversation with someone is a major part in why I found myself drawn to it. But the pictures itself was another major thing. The way each pictures is so simple yet so complicated and the way it tells a story is something I find to be so amazing."
In Isana's blog post, she talks about this unique relationship between how to write well and how to live well. She did tied this relationship together by comparing "The Sea of Information" and the senior year of high school. This relationship was well described and written out for a reader to understand the point Isana was trying to get across.
"When reading this post, I must say, I thought for just a second that you were reading my mind. This issue of being a senior in high school and making all these major decision is something that bothers me every single day. How am I supposed to look into the future and see what I wanna be in 5years? In 20 years? It just really blows my mind. However, what I like most about your post was how you connected writing with life in general. This kind of connection is something I have never even considered, maybe this being because I am not one who finds joy in writing so I never really look at it as a way to relate to living a good life. Now, even though I may not be the best writer or even find it to be my number one hobby, I still find this connection fascinating. The way you explain how when you write you find this certain spark and it leads you, it guides you to a place where you know is where you are supposed to go and connect that to finding a spark in life and having that lead you towards your destination. I just found I could relate to that 100%. In this post you were really preaching to the crowd and it's something you should be proud of because I really enjoyed it."
Vika P.
In Vika's blog she connect Born Into Brothels to her own photography. She showed this connection by not only talking about how her own life connects to the kids' in the brothels, but she also showed this by actually showing us viewers actual photographs she took to help us understand her connections on a much higher level of comprehension.
"I would like to just start out by saying one simple word; wow. Your pictures are amazing. For some odd reason, or maybe it's not odd at all, but I find photography to be one of the coolest things anyone has ever invented. I'm sure your probably saying "well duh it's the coolest thing" because you are so passionate about it. And your passion is the exact thing that drew me into your blog, or should I say blogs. It is hard for me to just comment on one blog, so while i have the chance I would like to say that both of your blogs were very interesting the way you incorporated your own photography. I was confused whether I like the beautiful photos or the writing itself. However, as I write this I have come to realize that it is both the writing and the pictures together that creates these blogs. The way you explain your blog like your having a conversation with someone is a major part in why I found myself drawn to it. But the pictures itself was another major thing. The way each pictures is so simple yet so complicated and the way it tells a story is something I find to be so amazing."
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