“What do you mean second draft?”

Oh boy high school. It all began when I step foot as fresh meat at Lyman High School, English I Honors and ended at AP Literature my senior year. I actually enjoy writing, especially when I am interested in the topic. But personally, I don’t think I am good at. I never really had a “writing process.” I kind of just brainstormed a few things here and there on a paper then off I write. As hard as I try, there stamped a measly three or if I am lucky or if my teacher is feeling nice that day, a four.

Writing has never really been my strongest point. Coming from a public school I feel like I was never really taught the fundamentals of good writing. Generally we never had take home writing assignments which I felt never gave us the ability think the topic through and really add creativity. We were always given a short amount time to come up with a mind blowing paper. Otherwise known as, “timed write,” we were given roughly around thirty to forty-five minutes to write.

I am the type of person who likes to think a topic thoroughly before hand and I can personally say I struggled during these timed writes. I struggled getting the bare minimums down for my paper because I can never decide on what to write about and by the time I do, there is five minutes on the clock and I find myself rambling to the end; rushing to finish.

After the miserable fail we eventually get our papers back and our teachers put us into groups for peer reviewing. But no one really contributed helpful comments. Now that I am in college I hope to enhance my writing skill, not only it is important to have but from experience in summer c semester I noticed that I find myself writing papers left and right for almost every class!