Personal Narrative: How Writing Has Changed My Life

I currently live in a small beach town right outside of Jupiter, Florida known as Hobe Sound. It’s a “drive by town” as I would describe it. There really isn’t anything there would attract or gravitate people to stay there; its better to just look at it out a car window well passing it. It is currently about six hours outside of Tallahassee, Florida. This seems really long, but originally I signed to go to University of Mississippi and later realized that being more than ten hours away from home was to much for me. Three years ago my mother was diagnosed with stage four melanoma cancer on her right thigh that was rapidly growing and spreading. The doctors did multiple operations that were life risking; she survived every surgery, but things …show more content…
Academics has also been something that I have struggled with in the past especially when it comes to writing. In 2004 I was diagnosed with dyslexia and on a scale to 1-10 I was probably at a 9 to how bad I it was. I had no idea how to write. Slowly with the help of many I eventually got the foundation of how to write a simple essay, but its still something I will always struggle with. I would consider myself a very creative person, however when it comes to research papers and stuff of that sorts you might be better off looking at a blank piece of paper because its probably will be better then any essay I write. Now being ENC 2135 its all about research and writing (can’t you tell its my favorite?), which is something that obviously needs more improvement. I would like to learn how to outline a research paper and how to write an interesting paper; one that has a voice and doesn’t sound boring. Even though my writing skills aren’t at its finest I do love to read even though it is a struggle at times also. I love reading the typically girly stuff like Nicolas Sparks, but I also love classics like pride and prejudice and anything by Shakespeare.