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Throughout college, I have grown tremendously to love all different kinds of writing. I even got a bigger appreciation for poetry. I never like remembering what iambic pentameter is or other terminology, but I know that I liked how the poems sounded and the pictures they would paint in my mind.
I created a NiceNet so that students can answer questions about how their writing has developed. The class key to join in the conversation is -S346964S55. One question has already been posted.
I created a NiceNet so that students can answer questions about how their writing has developed. The class key to join in the conversation is -S346964S55. One question has already been posted.
Throughout college I learned how to improve many common types of writing, and I learned how to write effectively in other ways that I wasn't used to writing in. One example of writing that I had not done before was when I wrote about my biggest fear. That was new for me because I wasn't used to feeling uncomfortable when I wrote. The following story talks about that experience. I will also Attach the story if you would like to read the paper that gave me so much anxiety.
Fear of Writing or Writing of Fear??
Being asked to talk about something personal can either be fun or, to put it vaguely, not fun. Where on that scale would I put the thought of writing about my biggest fear? Well I would say that would have to be beyond not fun. During my 3rd year of college I had to write about just that. I had to explain to someone that I am a coulrophobic. For those of you who don’t know.. that means I have a fear of clowns.
You would be afraid too if one of evil embodied freaks tried to kill you when you were young.. I wasn't even old enough at the time to ride a bike without training wheels. Well that is another story for another time, but that experience really made it difficult for me to write my experience, let alone be able to completely and accurately document my emotions at the time. When I started remembering the fear and the blood, my blood, I found myself shaking as I typed it on the keyboard. I would have to stop after a few paragraphs and get myself together before proceeding out of fear of having one of those extremely painful stabs to the heart and loss of feeling to my body, something medical people like to call panic attacks.
After writing the paper and feeling as if every sentence expressed my inner fear, I took my finished paper to class, feeling relieved to just get it out of my hands. What I didn’t know was that the professor wanted everyone to read a paragraph from their papers so people could hear a little bout what happened. It got around to being my turn and I thought I would read the part about the clown trying to suffocate me and cracking a rib in the process. As I read it in class, I began to shake, and my heart beat so fast as if I was that little girl running down the street with blood pouring down her hands and legs. My heart beats faster just writing these few paragraphs.
During the reading of that scene, my lips trembled, so I had to stop reading and breath for 20 seconds so I could continue. The professor told me I didn’t have to continue, but I wanted to overcome that challenge. It was embarrassing to have people see me like that, but that writing assignment really challenged me to write outside my comfort zone and be vulnerable to the reader more than any other paper I have ever written.
This fear is not a joke.. This is what I go through!! Even when I wrote my paper about my fear, I had to face difficult memories. Writing is not always comfortable, and I realized that during the writing process of my fear paper. Watch this video to get an idea of this fear.
You would be afraid too if one of evil embodied freaks tried to kill you when you were young.. I wasn't even old enough at the time to ride a bike without training wheels. Well that is another story for another time, but that experience really made it difficult for me to write my experience, let alone be able to completely and accurately document my emotions at the time. When I started remembering the fear and the blood, my blood, I found myself shaking as I typed it on the keyboard. I would have to stop after a few paragraphs and get myself together before proceeding out of fear of having one of those extremely painful stabs to the heart and loss of feeling to my body, something medical people like to call panic attacks.
After writing the paper and feeling as if every sentence expressed my inner fear, I took my finished paper to class, feeling relieved to just get it out of my hands. What I didn’t know was that the professor wanted everyone to read a paragraph from their papers so people could hear a little bout what happened. It got around to being my turn and I thought I would read the part about the clown trying to suffocate me and cracking a rib in the process. As I read it in class, I began to shake, and my heart beat so fast as if I was that little girl running down the street with blood pouring down her hands and legs. My heart beats faster just writing these few paragraphs.
During the reading of that scene, my lips trembled, so I had to stop reading and breath for 20 seconds so I could continue. The professor told me I didn’t have to continue, but I wanted to overcome that challenge. It was embarrassing to have people see me like that, but that writing assignment really challenged me to write outside my comfort zone and be vulnerable to the reader more than any other paper I have ever written.
This fear is not a joke.. This is what I go through!! Even when I wrote my paper about my fear, I had to face difficult memories. Writing is not always comfortable, and I realized that during the writing process of my fear paper. Watch this video to get an idea of this fear.
Another type of writing that I have never been exposed to before until I reached my 3rd year of college was something called an isearch paper. That also was a paper that really made me uncomfortable to write. Doctor Allen explained in my African literature class that everyone would have to write one of those type of papers. I have to say that I was really nervous to write it because I had never written something like that before. It has always been engrained in my head that personal feelings, like in personal narrative, should not be intertwined with a research paper's guidelines. I could not wrap my head around that idea for a little while. I never knew that it was acceptable for me to write in a way where the reader can know how I was feeling and my opinions about things, and at the same time, have a lot of research elements included.
When I started writing that paper, I realized that I shouldn't over think a genre of papers just because I had never written one like that before. I felt a lot more comfortable after I actually started putting thoughts on paper. One thing I learned from that experience was to trust my abilities as a writer to take on the challenge of writing another genre of papers.
When I started writing that paper, I realized that I shouldn't over think a genre of papers just because I had never written one like that before. I felt a lot more comfortable after I actually started putting thoughts on paper. One thing I learned from that experience was to trust my abilities as a writer to take on the challenge of writing another genre of papers.