Dip pen

Reflection When I first registered for this class I knew I was facing a challenge. I took this class because I was looking forward into improving my creativity as a writer and learned more about the different styles of writing. Looking back at the goals I set for myself in the beginning of the class I would gladly say I have some what accomplished them. My goals in the beginning of the class was to improve my writing by becoming more of a show and not tell kind of writer. I also put down that…

So Sad.” convey the compulsion of writing. The speaker’s pen begs for the chance to write, “Use me. Use them. Write/ their stories” (Wicker 41). The use of italics is to convey to the reader the internal dialogue of the speaker as a writer; they have a drive to craft stories from the inspiration around them.…

different grocery items (milk, eggs, bread, orange juice, strawberries). I then asked Cassie, “what can you do to learn and remember the items of groceries on the list?” Cassie responded with, “maybe a list.” I then stated, “what if we didn’t have paper or pens, how would we remember these five items?” Cassie responded with, “by creating a song.” I then asked Cassie to create a song that included the five grocery items. I gave Cassie as much time as she needed in order to create a song. When she…

the one the judge raved about so much. I was the one who made her cry. I was the winner of the Editor’s Choice Award. Four years ago, as a seventh grader, I was sitting in the auditorium of Garfield Middle School as a participant in the Power of the Pen district competition. After the competition, I learned the benefit of trying new things and how it helps not only me, but others as well. When I was in the seventh grade I had a few close friends but was shy around many others. I spent a…

Placing the pen on paper, I commit to a series of ideas that are unknown to me. Placed before me, the prompt rests on the desk and a pencil erases away my mind, static fills the void in my head. I read and I read. I read the prompt; I read the context; I write my notes and a bundle of ideas blossom in my mind. I struggle to transfer my thoughts into comprehensive sentences that will fully encompass my understanding of the subject. Every single time I walk out the door, my once busy mind flooding…

Click, clack, sigh. Click, clack, click, clack, click, click, click, these familiar sounds of keys working harmoniously with my hand’s every movement, signifies the formation of an essay. My fingers drumming the keyboard have filled up my freshman days through every paper I wrote. On account of these repeated actions, I have developed as a writer and with it the quality of my work. As shown through the evolution of my essays this year, I truly believe my writing has blossomed because I have…

equally strange to see the amazing number of typographical errors – more then I have ever made before. But, let me back up first and explain. Long ago (not too long ago), I used to write exclusively on the computer and the thought of picking up a pen and writing again was just not present. When I did write longhand it seemed to be cumbersome. It was fine for a grocery list but for anything substantial my wrist ached. Most of my writing was confined to work related documents: manuals, briefs,…

My daughter has always loved to write. At first it was in childish scribbles, done in crayon or finger paint, but for her eighth birthday I bought her a beautiful calligraphy pen, and now it’s almost all she does. She’ll sit in her room for hours, writing until she runs out of ink or comes down to dinner. She’s started school again recently, and despite my initial worries she’s made so many friends; she has one over every few days, and each time a different one. They play all day, and for the…

Most people pay little attention to the writing utensils they use. If they lose a pencil or an eraser, they will just simply get a new one. For a long time I have tried to be different than other people. I have tried to be responsible for every pencil and eraser I owned. I made sure that there were exactly six pencils and one eraser in my pencil case every day. I was proud of being organized and taking good care of my writing utensils. Eventually I became attached to them because they reflected…

On the literal level, this riddle refers to a quill and the 3 fingers used to write with it. Writing always requires a writing utensil and fingers to work together produce words.In this riddle, the word “weird” doesn’t mean strange, its definition is destined, which allows the answer to make sense. The creature -- a hand writing-- moved swiftly, leaving black tracks, otherwise known as words written in black ink. At the time, quills were used to write, alluding to the phrase “flew through air”.…