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As a writer there have been many ups and downs that I have gone through. A lot of moments have shaped my writing experience. For example I remember a paper I wrote about softball my freshman year of college that I got an A on it; I worked really hard and used many recourses available. Starting out with a good grade on my first paper in college really gave me a burst of confidence. It was a moment that I was proud and felt I could do it. A moment that wasn’t so good was when I was a sophomore in college and I got a C on a paper, I felt I worked hard on it and it took me many weeks to complete. It was six pages long over the movie Borat. I had to write about how it tied into American Culture. In elementary school you are just starting to learn how to write, read, and make things fit together. As you enter middle school you start learning how to write essay and do research. Then you move into high school and things start getting graded and you have certain prompts you have to follow. For example MLA format, writing becomes less free and you have more guide lines. College papers are usually filled with a lot of research and they are graded on exactly how the teachers want. There are many different kinds of writing. My writing use to be for fun and to get my feelings out. For example, I use to keep a journal and write about things that happened in school. It’s funny to go back and look at it now, and all the little things I use to worry about or things that I thought mattered. Now my writing has turned more into writing because if I don’t I won’t pass a class. I certain things I have to write about for example, this blog or the paper I’m writing on president Obama for my American History class. There no time to “write for fun” anymore, it actually bothers me. We are told what to write and when. I feel like people do their best writing when they aren’t told to, and when they don’t have set guidelines. Like I said before I think that “out of school writing” is the best. We can say what we want and aren’t so worried about the right format and what grade we are going to get we can just write away! I don’t write the same in school and when I’m out of school. Out of school I can really state my opinion and feelings. My audience is usually the teacher, people can say it’s for other classmates but usually you are trying to catch the teacher’s eye and you could really careless about what other classmates think. This is actually pretty sad. I am usually never my own audience, only when I write in my journal which hasn’t been in ages. I am a slow writer if I don’t have much to write about. But if you get my fired up or angry about something I type so fast and won’t slow down till I get it all out on paper. I like to listen to music (country) when I write and I do my best writing in the library or lying on my bed. I like the library because I focus and get to work, and my bed is just homely and comfortable. Throughout my writing I will pick up my phone a lot though to see texts or check the time. I try to re-read and take my time. I must use word processing; I am I horrible speller and would rather type then write. This is all for this Wednesday, I’ll have more to come! – Goal for the next few weeks: generate my own ideas for papers, don’t have the teacher help me get started, get started on my own, in addition to think outside of the box for writing assignments.