What it was like for you to figure out what to write about.
Like most writing assignments I’ve ever done the process of
deciding what to write about and where to begin is a random one. A lot of times
I’ll think of a few things in the moment and then change it later on as a
random idea pops into my head. I knew that I wanted to go into the direction of
my childhood because I figured it would be pretty easy, and I loved reading
when I was a kid. My initial though was to talk about when my mom would read
Dr. Seuss books to me when I was younger. But I eventually decided to focus on
a story that dealt with school because I felt that a school environment could
be more dynamic and entertaining than my former pre-bedtime routine.
I’m truly scattered and unorganized when it comes to
revision. I guess I just like to let things happen and not put too much thought
into them. I started with a wide variety of ideas which included:
·
Learning how to read and write
· Writing short stories in school
· Childhood diary
· Story time in elementary school
· When my mom would read to me
· Reading short novels like the Junie B. Jones collection
· How AP classes helped my writing process
· Writing short stories in school
· Childhood diary
· Story time in elementary school
· When my mom would read to me
· Reading short novels like the Junie B. Jones collection
· How AP classes helped my writing process
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Somehow i was also thinking of incorporating the idea of the internet
in this project….I’m not sure what I was thinking there
What it was like for you to revise your work.
Like I mentioned before, I went with a topic from my
childhood in the school setting. So I knew
that I wanted to write about story time but I had no idea how. Lacy gave me
some advice to try to put the readers in the moment with me as a child at story
time in order to see what it was like from my childhood perspective. I really
liked this idea so I decided to go with it.


What it was like for you to edit your work (include here the editing goal(s) you came up with in class.
For my final draft I wanted to try something different. I liked
the inserts I did with my thoughts and wanted to try and incorporate that
again, but in a different scenario or in a new way. I worked on it over our Thanksgiving break and
most of my revision process took place on the computer. I typed random thoughts
and starting points, and deleted most of them very quickly. The first day of
doing this I quit because I couldn’t think of any ideas that I really liked. Throughout
the day I continued to think on it and I decided that it might be cool to write
about my position on literacy now, and try to display the contrast of my
feelings of literacy between my pre-adulthood and adolescent years.
I loved this idea because this project really helped me realize
this contrast because it forced me to think and remember how much literacy
meant to me as a child. I decided to put this story in my more current
classroom setting of English class to keep that sort of theme common between my
two narratives.
So with that topic I began, I tried to incorporate the
thought process again, but it didn’t seem to work as well in a story that was
in present tense. I played around with
it for a little while and decided to put in inserts of writing in my day book
instead. This seemed to work pretty well
at portraying my thoughts like I did in the first draft. Towards the end of my paper I decided to
insert a reflection of the contrast of these two time periods for me.
This project was overall, pretty interesting. Like I mentioned
earlier, it made me realize things that I has forgotten or never put too much
though into before. It was a whole new experience to experiment with different
ways of writing a paper. It really challenged me to think and be creative.