Most children grow up writing tales about dragons, princesses, and candy islands with lemonade seas, riddled with grammatical errors and misspelled words. The power of imagination spilled out of child’s brain simply by putting pencil to paper – or wall. Of course, many years later my writing has evolved from writing about chocolate rivers to less imaginative essay about what an author meant by “the sky is blue”. Writing has never been my favorite subject in school, however with an eleventh grade English teacher, I learned to tolerate it. My mother taught me almost everything I know about writing; what my teachers failed to teach me at school, my mother taught me at home. She has made sure I have written every essay, personal statement or research …show more content…
However, it was the past two years in Honors English Eleven and AP Literature in which I believed I learned the most about writing and grown as a writer. Both teachers delved into the deeper aspects of writing and made sure my peers and I were great enough writers to do well in any classes after. As aforementioned, most of my knowledge of writing has grown from my mother and my past two teachers. They have taught me how to make sure an essay does not put the reader to sleep. They have taught me how to make a piece of writing flow fluently instead of simply having several sentences sloppily on a paper. They have taught me how to use writing devices such as anaphora and consonance to spice up my writing. Most importantly, they have taught me to be a better writer as a whole. While writing for a school assignment can be a chore for me, I absolutely love writing for myself. The fact that I can create an alternate world filled with anything I want just amazes me. As a person who has a hard time verbally expressing how she feels, it is so relieving to be able to express how I am personally feeling by writing a short story or a poem. Writing for leisure creates such an outlet for