Reflective Essay About Writing

I can not really say that I have always liked writing. When I write, it is more of my mind talking on paper instead of my mouth talking. Some things sound better in my mind than they do when I read them out loud. I never did write much at home unless I had to do English homework, but when I did write I wrote pages. I gain this focus feeling that once I am into something I just can stop because once I do, I will just completely forget about it and be busy with another project.

I remember when I was in fourth grade I was at my lowest point in writing. Our class had to learn cursive, start using pen, and neatness was key to success. I struggled in all those points. I had to keep scribbling out my ugly cursive, which caused a terrible mess on the binder paper. My sentence were horribly written out. I have to say I dreaded to let my homeroom teacher see my paper because I was not the brightest student in the class. There was this “if I was president” paper we had to write and I had to rewrite the paragraph at least 5 times. I am not honestly sure if I had spelling mistakes or my handwriting in cursive is just chicken scratch, but I felt embarrassed to show her my work. Towards the end of school year, my teacher told me that I have …show more content…
She was rather tedious, but I still appreciate her anyways because she has been one of the most helpful teacher I had. She pushed me to exceed my limits and outside my comfort zone. I thought she was indeed a hard teacher, but in a good way. She made me change all my bad habits like sentences should be on the line and not floating, the letter “u” should have a curve to distinguish it from “v”, and have neater handwriting. Looking back, I remember how she would scold at us if we would stop writing during the 10 minute time period of free writing. She has definitely helped shape my writing to the way it is