School Writing

  When it comes to school writing, I am not sure if  I can recall a most or least successful paper I have ever written. I have always been that mediocre school writer. Perhaps due to the fact that I do take school very seriously, but do not enjoy writing under rules and restrictions. I have forced myself to be disciplined and work on the assignments whether it was fun or boring. However, one experience as a school writer that out stands in my mind was a play that I had to write when I was a freshman in High School. It was a modified version of the "Little Red Riding Hood" and it turned to be so funny that we were asked to perform the play to the whole school. I know that it was not a writing assignment, but I did have to write the play. Does this one count?

Daily Writing

    Writing is part of my daily routine. I wake up and check what is going on with  my family and friends on Facebook and other social websites. I also check my emails to see if I have any important messages. I also check my cell phone for text messages. Furthermore, email is my primary mean of communication at work. I am an export agent and I have to communicate with people all over the globe. Needless to say that writing emails comes very handy in this occasion. Not only it eliminates most of the communication barriers (anyone who has ever tried to call Microsoft, customer service, for instance, knows what I am talking about), but it also documented for records purposes. In light of these, I can tell that writing is almost everywhere in my everyday life in this new digital era.

The Turning Point

I can not recall an experience in my school writing that out stand from the others. I guess that this is due to the fact that I do not enjoy writing academic papers. I believe that all the rules and formats that teachers expect to see in academic papers take away a lot of my inspiration and creativity, and the writing process, all of a sudden, becomes boring and unpleasant.  I should mention that it is not the whole process that do not excite me. I love doing research and leaning new things. I just don't enjoy all the restrictions imposed on how to write a research paper or an academic essay. I hope that this class is it. The turning point. The point where I start enjoying and having fun writing for school purposes.

EARLIEST MEMORY OF WRITING

I am not sure if I recall my first experience writing, but I definitely recall when writing became important to me. It was back in 1991 when I lived in Michigan for 1 year as an exchange student. You may be asking yourselves: Michigan? Exchange student? I guess I should have mentioned that I am from Brazil. Really what I should mention is that in the early 90's, email and the Internet was not readily available to the public and phone calls were very expensive. Hence the viable alternative to communicate with my friends and family was the old practice of writing letters. I grew very passionate about writing my family and friends. I am sure that this was the first time that I felt the need to write and wrote for hours without the agony of having to write. It was actually very pleasant. I loved when I receive letters to and I would go right back to my desk and write many many pages.Writing gave the impression that I was not very far from home....only a few paragraphs away and about 7 days until my words arrived at their destination.