A Negative Impact On My Writing Process

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growing up I 've never been a very proficient writer . but my mom never accepted mediocre work especially when she saw greatness in all of my brothers. Being a little kid I always thought my mom had a negative impact on my writing process, but now that I 'm older I still see she was actually left a very positive impact on my writing process. No matter what my mother always made sure I always had three drafts. The first draft will be of course the draft where you get basically all of your ideas on paper to get a general idea of what you 're about to write about. The second draft was where the editing and deletion of all the unnecessary content in your paper. The second draft also eliminated grammatical and spelling errors in the paper. The …show more content…

I made sure I was able to respond in a way that I did not disrespect her in any shape or form. even though when everybody left the room a few tears came down my face, but not because my feelings were hurt from her yelling at me. It was due to the combination of high stress levels and anxiety my paper that I was attempting to write had given me. the stress was really impacted me so hard because me being only a child I never really had to endure any stress so the stress was all new to me. I wanted to ask my mom to really help me because the stress didn 't feel good at all but it was no way I could have a dialogue with my parents at all given that I grew up in a authoritarian home so that means whatever they said was the way things were going to go no matter what. so my back was basically against the wall so only thing I could do is be highly submissive to my parents and just do what they say and try to fix my paper. Since I was, calm spirited I was able to think and come up with the answers that my mom was really looking for out of me. after I got it right I was overjoyed and it made me feel great that I actually got it right at such a young age. So at the end it turns out my mom really did have a positive impact on my writing

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