Reflective Essay: I Am As A Writer

As a recent graduate from high school, I believed my writing was at the top of the batch when it came to creating stories and essays based on emotions and strong opinions. However, as I process to college I feel like a fish out of water who as little knowledge that you must keep swimming to survive. I was praised by my teachers for having extraordinary detail that easily created a visual representation within their minds. Fellow students would discuss within me the options of being a writer or novelist; determination and motivation never knocked me down when I began to write. Then when I took a deeper look at those papers they never had a true story behind it, they were filled with statistical facts and useless words that impressed others but …show more content…
It took me months to realize that maybe I wasn’t going to be this famous author who wrote a top seller before Beethoven wrote his first masterpiece I wondered, like all teenagers, if it was the teacher 's fault and not mine; maybe she just didn’t see the beauty in scrambling and digging through the millions of subtopics to find the main idea or theme. On the other hand, maybe I was just suffering from writer’s block or just off my game; either way I finally came to the realization, after months of stubbornness, that I needed to improve no matter how good I believed I was, and still …show more content…
My teacher would point out the same mistakes that appeared in the previous essay and i would get flustered. I didn’t understand why I couldn’t grasp that concept or small mistake. Time progressed and the beginning of a novel was beginning to arise from my short stories; however my excitement began to show up through sloppiness and rushing other assignments to focus on my true desire. I was returning to the start where my cockiness had gotten in the way, luckily my teacher put me back in line and I grew out of the idea that all my essays could be masterpieces and inspirations to all of the