Time After Time

Another day, another reflection.

 

It is that time again. To choose another Writing Into the Day thing. This time was much more difficult to decide which writing than the first time. Today is Friday and the first day of my weekend so I'm trying to focus since it's 2 in the afternoon and I'm still in my pajamas in bed. I’m a tad distracted so hopefully my blog will make some sense.

 
Today I chose the Writing Timelines we had to create for homework the other night. When I was doing it, I didn’t really think about how it was meant to help us. Maybe it isn’t supposed to help us – I don’t know. The Writing Timeline did a little extra for me though. It helped me understand a little bit more about why I am the writer that I am today.

 
Before I go in depth on what it did for me, I’ll explain what the Writing Timeline was. The task was to choose at least five memories (or more) that we believed shaped us as writers. Before creating the Timeline, Lacy, my teacher, gave us a list of questions to answer  what we remember about our early writing. I unfortunately do not remember the questions specifically, but they were pretty simple so it’s no big deal.

           
So for me, the Writing Timeline made me remember back to elementary school when we first had the super easy prompts. I remember using stupid transition words like “first, second, last.” It is kind of funny how many other words there are to use other than “first, second, last.” My next event on my Timeline was when I was in 8^th grade and I joined my school yearbook for the first time. It was a super easy class but it was the first step in my yearbook career. I had to take pictures of kids I’d never met, write stories about sports I knew nothing about, and overall it just allowed me to open up and become less awkward…which I’m thankful for. I loved yearbook. I skipped a couple years until my next event which was my giant research paper for my junior year. I wrote it on the correlation between aggression and violent video games. The paper gave me the ability to write an extremely personal opinion on something very modern. I got a really good grade on that paper and it assured me of my writing abilities. I shouldn’t second guess myself. My fourth event on my Timeline was when I became Editor-In-Chief of my high school yearbook in 12^th grade. Best moment of my life. It was an amazing experience. I learned so much about journalism from the five years I was in yearbook. Being Editor-In-Chief is the most gratifying event on that Timeline. My final event on my Timeline is my first college paper. I turned it in last week, and I don’t know my grade yet but it’s making so nervous. Turning that paper in made me question all of the skills and everything I’ve ever learned about writing.

 Have I really been a good writer all this time? Who am I trying to kid?

 Overall, the Writing Timeline helped me comprehend why I write the way do.