My best writing experience occurred when I was in elementary school. During fourth grade, my teacher would allow us to write for 30 minutes about whatever we wanted to. Every day, I would write a different story, and I was always so proud of myself because my teacher always made it seem like no matter what I wrote about, it was right. We would be able to share our stories, and I always liked volunteering to read mine out loud. I always felt like I had accomplished something spectacular on a daily basis. This time in my life made such an impact, that I still have the composition notebooks that I used to write in.
During my junior year in high school, I took an AP class, and my worst writing experiences came from having to write essays in that class. I didn’t like writing in that class because I have never been the strongest writer, and it showed through my papers. I felt as though I sounded like an idiot whenever I wrote, and most of the time I would have to write about things that weren’t interesting to me; so I tried to avoid writing all together. I would try to practice my writing on a regular basis but no matter how much time I spent on them, I would always make low test grades.
I was affected most by my worst writing experience because it made me not want to write. It took the joy out of being creative and having fun with my writing. Instead of teaching me how to write better papers, the class ended up frustrating me. I didn’t like the fact that I had to work really hard to write papers that other people would deem acceptable or not. I also didn’t like spending so much time writing something that I felt was good quality work, and being told that it wasn’t. But I’m ready to start over fresh and do a better job with this class.
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