M.+Reflection

Over the years my writing has matured from short sentences to long more in depth stories. Though my skills have become better they are always going to improve. Even the teachers I have had teach me new ways of writing every year. They show me what I do wrong or give me advice on a trick to make it better. My writings have more description in them since starting high school and they have improved more this year than most. The main reason would be that I worked to my full potential this year and always made sure that my writings meet my standards.  My biggest strength in writing has always been my description in my stories. I love to feel that either the reader or I am apart of the story. I like to describe my surroundings of the story or what the character is doing in depth. I thought that if someone where to read and be one with the story they would enjoy it more. My descriptive skill has also been improved in that I would have to find was around certain words I learned not to use like: you and don’t.  My biggest weakness is and always will be commas. I learn them every year and still do not grasp how to use them properly. In an old story I used them twenty-five times and they were all in the wrong spots. They are always confusing to me and I try hard to avoid them in any writing task. This year though my class has gone over them enough that I have a small yet better understanding of them.  Of all my works this year I would say that my favorite was the Gatsby project. Others wrote short plays and songs but I wrote a story. I loved doing this piece so much because I full creative control from beginning to end. The only thing was needed was a list of words added here and there. I wrote the story over three times because the first two did not make sense until the idea came to me on how to complete it. It was also the most enjoyable to do out of all the writings. It was so much fun I had started to write another story shortly after.  My least favorite to write was the Gatsby and the American dream essay. It was very restricted to one underlining them. I did not have fun writing it because it was boring and bland in writing taste. It was also kind of difficult to write because we had to find the write information to go with it. I found I hard to compare the American dream to Gatsby because I did not like their American dream. It went against my belief of the American dream, being that is hard because I already live in America so I do not know what that dream is to others.  Compared to portfolios on wiki or paper, I would choose paper. A main reason might be that I do not have internet access at my home so it is hard for me to keep track of a wiki. On paper it is much easier for me to track it down because it is a physical thing. If a wiki or the work on it is deleted then you do not have it ever again. I also love having paper portfolios because at the end of the year when I am holding the stack of stories or essays, it makes me feel proud that I wrote these. Love the feeling that I can keep them and read them to others in my family because if not I would be lugging a laptop around or waiting for computer to put in a flash drive.  This has been one of the best years of school in my life so far. I now know my growing writing potential and that if I put my mind to it I can be better than before.