Reflective Essay: What Makes A Good Writer?

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Growing up I have always enjoyed writing, I view writing as the most effective way to tell your true feeling, because sometimes telling how you feel to someone that person can rebut or cut in to what you saying. Writing makes what you want to say come across exactly how you mean it and how you want it to come across
In my current stage in life I do not like writing in any form not even texting. When I think about writing or have to do a writing assignment I get poignant memories and it just makes the whole experience terrible. When I look back I loved to write I can remember my first memory of writing. When I was in kindergarten I did my first book report. It was done on a page with four large boxes and in each box I would draw and write a sentence or two about the book in the for boxes. This is when I first learned the power of writing and how there is another way to convey how you feel instead of speaking. From then on I enjoyed writing discovered my personal view on it, it is a way to exactly tell what you mean and how you want it to be view by others. I can also remember learning how to write bye carefully tracing over the perforated lines making a letter, and when I got
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I was nervous about writing this because I was never told I was a good writer or even given support by my teacher. So when I received good reviews even from my English teacher I felt apart of myself I had not felt in four years, which was the joy of writing.
This whole experience is significant to me because its how and when I stopped liking anything to do with writing. These events just kept building and building until I just done and could not enjoy, but now since my experience writing the school forward I have started to enjoy writing and remembered why I liked writing so much. Writing is on of the few ways I can say what I want exactly how I mean it and want to send

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