Personal Narrative: My Love Of Writing Vs. School Writing

I have always loved writing because it was a way to express myself without having to talk to other people about my thoughts and feelings. I’m fairly certain that my love for writing really started in the 6th grade, which was one of the worst years of my life. That was the year I was severely bullied by girls who were higher up on the popularity totem pole than myself. They played sports and all the teachers loved them, so a lot of them looked past what they said about me in class. It got to the point where I was skipping school, cutting class, and even cried in the bathroom because I wanted to be anywhere else in the world. Writing was the only thing that was able to take my mind off of it. I started to write daily about the things that were happening to me and venting like that made me feel a little …show more content…
The main difference is the things I talk about. For school writing, I don’t talk about very serious things that have happened to me in life out of the fear that the wrong people could read it and know everything about my life. I tend to be more open about my feelings in the writing I have done at home because I know that I’m the only one who will ever read it. The other main difference is that, ever since we have gotten technology in our school, all of the writing has always had to be done on the computer. That’s not a bad thing but I think in some cases it takes away from the intended meaning. At home I usually write in various notebooks I have laying around all over. I don’t think I’m ever more than 2 feet away from a notebook I can use to write in. Another thing that differs is that I sometimes type my poems on my typewriter that I got over the summer. I bet you haven’t heard those words written down a lot before! It just gives my poems a look that I adore because it looks more authentic; like the way poetry was supposed to