My writing

Last year left me pretty stunned as a writer. I honestly don't spend too much time worrying about my writing and I rarely write in my free time. To be blunt, I just don't enjoy writing that much. And yet, I somehow became a Penniman Scholar. Don't get me wrong... it's an honor and it was awesome to achieve such a status at this school, but I never expected that to happen. 

My writing is typically too long. As some of my classmates will say, I write 3 pages when everyone else writes 3 paragraphs. Sorry? I don't think it's always a bad thing, but too much writing can definitely be annoying depending on the assignment. I just overflow my brain with ideas when I write, and I feel like I need to do the absolute best I can whenever possible. Somehow that results in a novel every time we do a journal entry... 

Anyway, aside from the lengthy-ness, my writing tends to be fairly casual. I like to write using my voice, meaning the way I talk outside of the classroom and without a pen in my hand. My word choice is generally atrocious and my sentence fluency is crazy confusing. If I don't make sure to go back edit with a thesaurus in hand and the rules of grammer in my mind, I fail at writing. I have to read through my writing about a thousand times as well, before I can be certain that it's what I wanted. 

So overall, I'm a confusing writer who gets super lucky when it comes to ideas. 

Hmm ok then... I'll take that.