Reflective Essay: Who I Am As A Writer

To explain who I am as a writer I think we would need to step back and look at who I was as a reader. From a young age, I was horrible at reading. I would put in special programs that would have me read books to younger grade children to make it seem like I knew how to read. Well, at least I thought I knew how to read. When it came down to it I was three reading levels below my class. This was in third grade. In third grade, I was three reading levels below my class so you could only believe how low my writing was. I was a student that was never confident in writing because I was always the student that was below average. Now that we have the base of where I was let’s move a little forward into the fourth grade.
This was the beginning preparation for our state writing tests I believe. Honestly, it was so long ago that I don’t remember the grades exactly. It doesn’t matter though because this was the time that I decided that I wasn’t a writer. I don’t know grammar, punctuation, conventions, and spelling. All I had in my writing was my voice. I was so proud of my voice at that time. When my writing state test scores came back and it was two’s across the board I was hit hard. The only thing that gave any beacon of hope was that four sitting in the voice column. So, I …show more content…
This would just discourage me more from writing for school. At home though I would write all the time. I had my dream journal and my regular journal. These two items were and still are both part of me. I would spend my evenings filling them with whatever was in my head. It was easy to write in them because I was free from judgments and grades. If I spelled a word wrong, fine. If I didn’t use a comma, fine. If I did any of those things incorrectly like I am probably doing now, fine. I was able to express myself. My at home writing is the writing that I am passionate about, but now this brings me back to