What It Means To Write An Essay About Writing

Everyone has an understanding of what it means to write an essay or just any type of text. Many people write in different ways for different reasons. Understanding the way you write makes taking on a writing project. As a writer, I understand what I need to do when approaching a writing project. When it comes to writing essays, I prefer to write about something I have a say in, in other words, something that I can relate to and be passionate about writing it. Brainstorming for a topic isn’t hard because sometimes writing becomes more of a chore. English isn’t my first language. With that being said, I have to always go back and reread books so that I actually understand what I read. It’s also tricky because you can read something wrong and mess up the whole assignment. I personally don’t think I am a good writer in the first place, but that doesn’t stop me from trying. See, the struggle that comes with writing comes from figuring out what I should actually write about. I …show more content…
“You need to add a little more of this, and a little more of that.” I absolutely hated it. Everything I did seemed wrong like I was never meant to do anything right. I remember writing a narrative assignment and my teacher telling me that I had way too much detail after she had told me to make sure I described everything. Soon after that, when I wrote, I started using less detail and criticism on that began after that. At that the point of my writing I knew I was not good at writing as a whole. Not a single person told me something positive about my writing. It was always, “This is good but maybe you can add this to it to make it better”, or “maybe is you didn’t have this in here then maybe the reader won’t be confused.” There was always something there wrong. I just wanted to be able to express myself in a way that wouldn’t be considered