My Writing Experience

It is my belief that through this class and the tools provided, that my growth as a writer has grown through leaps and bounds I would never have assumed possible. It is not so much the skill I refer to, although I would think skill has gone up in some levels as well, but more so the appreciation for the craft of writing itself. Intially, at the start of this class my sole goal was to further my understanding and appreciation of the writer's and books that I so love to read. Through further evaluation within the first week, a few other goals came to mind, of which were making writing a habit, finishing what I start, stop second guess my writing skills and making effective use of detail and describtion. Through use of the many articles, various

Endless classes on the meaning of poetry, the authors of the great classics, and what it is to write poems, still had me slightly queasy whenever I came in contact with a poem. I have always been a tride and true lover of the novel, the longer the better, and thought although there are many lovely poems out there, that due to my minimal understand of them, there was very little point in poetry. However reading "Mere Air, These words, but Delicious to Hear" gave me a different outlook on poetry. For all my studying and muilitieds of poetry homework never got across the idea that poetry's sound makes it come alive like the critics words did. "There are times when I read a poem and can feel the syllables coming alive in my mouth... I feel the words creating a rhythm, a music, a spell, a mood, a shape, a form" (Hirsch). He shines a light on how what being said is as important as how it is said. With these words in mind, I found myself looking up poems I had been forced to read and never cared much for in the past. Although, I can say I still did not care for some of them, I could now appreciate the way the sound of the poems made them all so much more than what I had taken them to be in the past. Writing poetry, I found was as hard if not more than reading it was. However, with sound in mind, stretching a syllable here, or writing a long sentence there with the readers breath in mind as they

That does not change the fact that although you can learn something, there are always other angles or points of view to learn. So while reading stories such as "The Dungeon Master" I learned what the point of view could really do for a story, in terms of it's connection to the reader and how the story itself would progress depending on the point of view being captured. I kept the importance of point of view in mind when writing my first fiction story for the class. For character development, reading "Spy by Spy", and figuring out what the characters wanted, their motivation for wanting it, and what may be holding them back from that was an interesting way to solidify the effectiveness of good character development. Which was another task I focused on during the writing of my fiction stories for class. I feel that the importance of such basic things in writing really helped me to begin writing stories not just for myself but the reader as well, and in the process I found myself realizing that characters can come alive just as much as the stories they reside in