Personal Reflection On My Writing Assignment

The writing assignments that I’ve had throughout my years at CJ fell into two camps. The first being assignments in which the prompt and how to go about expanding on the prompt were explicitly laid out. For me these were the research papers, and the literary analysis and argument essays. These comprised of the majority of things that I’ve written in my academic career. The next camp of assignments fall under the category of minimal explicit prompting and more “choose-your-own-prompt” assignments. Creative writing allowed me to experiment more with the second camp of writing. The majority of assignments in this class being set up this way was something that took some adjustment for me as a writer with me having spent most of my prior experience …show more content…
Most of the stuff we worked on first semester were things that I tend to associate with “creative writing”- writing short stories, poems, etc. While I liked exploring these genres, I think I really started to enjoy creative writing when we got into creative nonfiction with the profile, the website project, and the visual essay. I think I enjoyed these assignments more because they allowed me to integrate the prose style that I was I used to writing in a more creative and more personal way. I especially enjoyed the website project. I’ve always wondered what “behind-the-scenes” work goes into making my favorite fashion editorial and aesthetic blogs and I’ve always wanted to try my hand at it. I tried to play the part of a blogger with the website project with picking topics that fell under different categories and appeals per week, as well as making and producing visuals to accompany the each of the posts. My weakness of picking ideas on picking something new to write about each week was the most challenging. Posts that I had direct inspiration such as my “Fashion Field Trip Post” and my “Pantone Color Report” posts were posts that were a lot easier to write versus some of the other things I posted. Above all, having to keep the blog updated every week, definitely made me see how keeping a blog can be a full time job for some