Writer Self-Study

Why do people write? It's simple, it is the emotion that comes with it. Writing enables the person ability to express what they feel. Whether they feel sad or happy, writing brings that information into light. It  takes creativity in another level, just like drawing.

To become a writer, its not just expressing how you feel, but having story with it. To be explicit, if you were to write just emotions, for example, a diary would be something that you would write all your emotions in, but that wouldn't make you a writer. A writer needs a plot, conclusion, some sort of idea. Anyone can be a writer, they just need to know how to write a good story, with a good plot.

To be a good writer, you would need proper grammar, word choice, and a good plot, but many people have different opinions about it. It is about personal preference. For example, my favorite writer in Jerry Spinelli, and to me he is a good writer. He has proper grammar, good word choice, and an excellent plot, but again for someone else they might  believe that he is mediocre.

People who like writing are not necessarily good writers, or people who hate writing might be actually good, I mean you never know, there is 8 billion people in the world. I consider myself a bad writer, but at the same time I like writing. I don't consider it as part of my identity, if I were, it will be like saying that the only way to show my emotions is through writing, and I don't that believe that be true about myself. I learn how to write in pre-K if I can recall, everybody in the USA learns it the same way at the same time, but those who are passionate about it accelerate faster than others.

I'm the type who will be passionate about writing, but only for a short time. The reason for that is that i'll always find something that promotes my interests more. I'm passionate only in making the story as enjoyable as possible, if I felt incompetent then I would just start over. When I start writing I don't stop, and when I do I re-read it to see if it made sense, because when i'm passionate about something, I start moving the story forward, in a way that it makes sense only to me, like an inside joke. What I would like to do better is to think in a different perceptive and ask myself, does this make sense in someone else's point of view? To keep myself in check.

I like to write fiction stories, just make something up and roll with it, even if its something dumb as long as it entertains me in way. I enjoy non-fiction and fiction types of writings, mostly non-fiction, since I can learn something from it. I fear writings that just take long to get to the point, not fear were i start reading and I get scared and run to my mother, but fear as in dislike. It takes my time to read complete utter nonsense just to learn something, why waste time when i can read another book with more information.

While writing this, I was able to reflect on myself, I gained that i'm impatient and that I have short attention span, sometimes. I learned that writing can help you understand what's going around in your head, like typing whatever is on my mind. This process was entertaining.