My Autobiography as a Writer

How have I learned to write?”

That is a very good question and one worth a bit of examination. I think my writing skills developed, first of all, with my reading skills. While I was always an effective reader and good speller, it is only recently that I have begun to enjoy reading. This newfound pleasure has truly transformed my writing. It started as a boring ability to say what was said and quote others. Now, I get a thrill out of putting my thoughts onto papers for others to read. I now consciously intend for anything I write to be both informational and entertaining, when and if possible. That is a brief explanation of my current writing style.

My ability to acedemically write well, begun in ninth grade. For the first time I had a teacher that did more than ask me to write. She showed us what a good piece of writing looked like, and why. Amazing, I Know! A teacher that actually thought that us inner-city kids might need a little review before expecting us to write. Anyways, something clicked that day. For the first time I knew what "good writing" was suppose to look like, and I could look for that in my writing. That was all it took to be able to get through high school, and quite honestly, most of college.

When I began to look at writing as an art, I wanted to be the artist. Like most things, it takes desire and practice to be able to write well. In my case, it also takes alot of intrinsic motivation and a side of interest. To those other competetive folks, any time their is a competition involved, like displayed work, I am motivated to put in the effort to get the result.