Personal Narrative: Defining Myself As A Writer

How would I define myself as a writer? I would say inexperienced. I am on the road to learning how I can become better. In school I was never good with my words. I could barely say what I wanted to let alone write it on paper. In high school, they have you write small papers here and there but nothing too extravagant. It was still hard for me to write any type of paper. Even now I struggle with writing down or even saying what I mean. But, the farther I go on with my education I am hoping I can progressively get better at both those subjects. I have very few experiences with writing. In high school is when I had the most experiences. I remember the hardest paper I have ever written. I was in middle school; I was taking French and our teacher assigned us to write a paper about France. We had to pick a subject about France like food, culture, monuments and so on. I had the roughest time researching topics and trying to put what I learned in to my own words while trying to have it make sense. I felt so low of myself because I thought it was going to be an easier paper than it was. I also have experience writing some papers in my English class last semester. Luckily for me, the assignments were not as difficult and were easier …show more content…
I feel like my weaknesses outweigh my strengths. I am weak when it comes to wording. I am awful at putting words together to describe what I am saying. I always want to sound as smart as I possibly can so I am constantly trying to expand my vocabulary. I try to look up words to better replace others. I also have trouble with making my writings flow. I tend to just write what automatically comes to me. I am very good at organizing my paragraphs and planning my paper. I have no issues with researching a topic or knowing where to put which subject for each paragraph. I do well with writing I just have problems with making details for each paragraph. I will get the big picture but details are my