Ethan Ahrens: Why I Become A Better Writer

Writing is great until you have to sit down and do it. The sentences never seem to flow into the brilliant paragraphs I had planned for them, and descriptions never build the picture the way it was drawn up in my head. I have never been entirely confident in my ability, probably for good reason. That said, I have always had a love hate relationship with writing; I can sit down and crank out a report on my high school’s basketball team in a half an hour, on the other hand I had to write limericks in my seventh grade English class and I am still working on them.

Since I take more pride in my writing ability it allows me to challenge myself and push my skill set. When we are given time to write a paper, I have began to write many drafts until I finally finish the perfect

Writing at work and writing at school are different from each other in their objectives and mission. Writing at school is specific to our mission because at school our mission is to earn a specific degree or to pass a course. In school, our objective to write may get grades, to show teachers what we have learned, or what specific things are needed to bring improvement in progress of our self (students); so all these objectives are indirectly related to the main objective of obtaining the specific degree. On the other hand, writing at work have a different mission such as its mission may be to inform the boss about project progress, to get information, to get permission from employers, to contact other related departments of workplace etc. So it is clear that the mission and objectives of writing at school and writing at work are different from each other in many aspects.

Two following types of inventions that I will use as a future writer include, brainstorming and freewriting. Brainstorming is producing ways with a group of people or by yourself of generating new ideas around the same type or area of interest. To do brainstorming you can either do it by yourself, or if with other partners to bounce ideas off each other which bring up new different ideas others can use. To help write out a brainstorm you can either write down different ideas as they come to the mind, or start with an objective and set a timer, and with that set up a flip chart, or a tree diagram. I will use brainstorming by helping me generate new ideas as a writer that will help me on essays or other things in the future, which in the end will make me an overall better writing. The second invention I find helpful as a future writer is; freewriting. Free writing is a pre-writing technique with a set

I tend to have the greatest accomplishments as a writer when I get to pick my topic and write about whatever I want. In my free time, I love spiritual journaling. I journal when times are rough or stressful, but more importantly when times are on a good note. I journal about things I am thankful for and write prayers to God. Sometimes I even journal song lyrics I like.

My experiences with writing have been a mix between good and bad. For the most part I don 't necessarily enjoy writing, but I find it more enjoyable when the topic interests me. Last year I wrote a seven page paper about the possibility of extraterrestrial life which for some people might sound boring, but really caught my interests and made the writing process quicker.

My journaling consisted of me writing in a composition book a couple times a week. I also made a things to do list every week so I could see the work that was due that soon. It was a way to prioritize my assignments. During the week I was focused on my classes for state and on the weekend I had had to work on my class for city. So I felt like I had no free time because once I was done with one assignment I had to start another one.

However, teens strive to work on their writing because they realize “good writing is the ticket to success in life”. Overall, Campbell believes that teenagers should

Ethan Harwood, a man of age forty, stood in the middle of the science facilities wearing a long white lab coat which draped across the floor. Ethan hated his job, manufacturing an artificial virus which controls the subconscious minds of people, but he was forced to by the Health Organisation. He decided that tonight he was finally going to escape with a group to try and save the town of Blackdale. As he walked home through the polluted air, he could not see the end of his nose, his pitch black hair and dark brown eyes almost made hime invisible at night. As soon as the purple contaminated sun had set and the tall industrialised buildings had turned out their lights, he gathered a group of people to start a revolution, the Defiant. Now the town of Blackdale hides more than just secrets, it hides people.

Their teacher helped them through writing, and let them write without judging them and without grading them. Quindlen says, “Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some under culture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as

I find it easier to write when I write everything at once as my words and paragraphs tend to flow and writing just seems easier. When I write assignments or essays over a few days, I am still able to write them its just that the points do not flow as easily, when I get into the groove of writing it just comes to me naturally and I do not have to think as

Brainstorming, writing an outline, writing the body, creating a title—there are numerous steps one can use in the writing process! This paper will discuss the writing process I use personally. When I write a paper, I follow four main steps: brainstorming, writing a rough draft, revising, and composing a final draft. Writing a paper can be a daunting task; therefore, when I write, the first thing I do is brainstorm. Because I normally have several ideas in my head, I find it extremely helpful to organize my ideas by documenting them on paper.

Everyone has their own way of writing. For example, when I write I don 't usually write many drafts. In my opinion I believe that you should write a paper, proofread it yourself three times, fix the things you need to fix, and bring it to a tutor, then pass it in. In the end everyone has there own way of writing.

You have to have all your thoughts organized and make sure you don’t get off tangent. The hardest part for me is organizing my thoughts and keeping on tangent. It’s extremely hard for me to stay on one point. The easiest part for me for the first writing draft was picking the topic.

When I have an idea on my mind, I always struggled to write it out as a legit sentence. Although I know that I should change my wording when I am writing down my thoughts, I cannot think of a formal expression in a short time. This is the most time consuming process when I am writing. I find an interesting fact about my writing that I can write faster when I am writing my journals on real paper. It is not because the contents of the journals are easier since I can write both reading responses and unscripted entries faster than typing into my laptop.