Creative nonfiction

This school year I enjoyed this English class because it was not very difficult, but it was not easy at all. This year we did so many assignments and some of them were analyzing poems, emulating poems, writing a theme of a poem, presenting a speech in class and then working as a group to create a chapter. I believe that I have grown throughout this school year. I have grown as a listener because back then I was not used to listening to poems without having a paper right in front of me. Now I am…

At the beginning the semester, I was terrified, it had been ten years since I have been in high school, and now finally I was enrolled in college courses. I tried to my best to recall everything I had learned in my time in high school, but I knew throughout the semester it would be an uphill battle. Now with the semester coming to end, I have realized that I have come out the other end with better understanding and knowledge with English Composition that I know will help further succeed in many…

Fiction I has been one of my favorite classes that I have taken at ARGS, so far. Though the countless writer’s block filled nights spent wanting to jump through a window and the excessive amount of money I have spent on tea/coffee this year, I would still do it over and over again, every time. I valued getting able to focus on my weaknesses as a writer in this cass. I also valued all the time we had discussing writing, books, and current events. Most of my favorite conversations from this year…

He enjoys informative writing. He is not a fan of the creative writing. He also does not have varied sentence structure when writing and does not like assistance. He has told me not to look at something until he has finished a paragraph. In these instances, I just let him go on writing. I also think his initial…

and specific words to depict a scene or interpret a concept. Writing specifically is like painting a picture with realistic technique, to make the picture or the concept is deeply engraved in readers’ minds. And no matter the writing is fiction or nonfiction, non abstract language nor vague words are supposed to be used in specific writing. As one of the most powerful writing techniques, specificity needs some understandings and practices to be used most effectively. First of all, there are…

Reading were one and the same; then, came junior high and suddenly English became all about writing, mainly writing my own ideas. For some time I struggled to find a voice and by the time Senior Year came around I found Creative Writing and had a strong sense of voice. In Creative Writing (my final high school English class) there were no comma errors, little required organization, with an emphasis on pathos and setting the scene; one could say that after several years of not stepping into a…

Who has influenced me? This is a very difficult question because it is not something I have truly taken the time to think about. I have never stopped to think about where my influences have come from. I recently came back into writing so I will use writings and influences from when I used to write frequently in high school and shortly after. I have kept most of what I have written and going back to them has been a sad experience. Very little of what I wrote was happy, but I wrote from my heart.…

grade, I discovered The Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare. Clare has become my idealistic aspiration for creative writing. Though, when I got to high school I joined yearbook. It became my biggest commitment in high school and by my senior year, I was one of the head editors. Around this time, I had no plan for what I wanted to pursue, I was caught between journalism and creative writing. It’s one of the main reasons I decided to attend RCC. Both styles of writing are what I wish to…

All writers are passionate about writing. Few writers, however, are fortunate enough to make a living off of their calling, or even to publish a book. In today 's modern world of consumerism, being an author on a full-time basis is no longer an option for more than an elite few. The majority of published authors are also productive members of society in another sense, taking on some other form of gainful employment. To find out more about this double life of an author, I managed to procure an…

MUW Letter of Intent There’s no power quite like that of having a community. It’s what gives us a sense of identity, it’s a source of love and support, it makes us feel safe in the world. In caveman days, without our clan we were as good as dead with the elements, sabertooth tigers, and limited resources working against us. In today’s world we have more cushioning to survive physically without a clan, but we still need them just as much psychologically and emotionally. An individual rose has…