Assignment #7

1. This quarter I enjoyed writing poetry the most. I like to write complex and abstract thoughts and the only way I can do that is through poetry. Although short stories are challenging to me, I think that they are a lot of fun. Part of the fun of writing is that it is a challenge to convey your thoughts into words. However, I feel like a lot of the daily prompts are childish. I don't really like writing them a whole lot because I feel that they have little or nothing to do at all with what we're writing about. For me, I think I like writing poetry the most because it is a simply style that doesn't require you to follow any strict rules. As the writer, you get to decide how the words flow, and what the meaning is. I like that.

2. I think my strongest piece of writing was the one that I wrote about the man and the creeping doubts that he has after his death. I feel like this is my strongest piece becasue I was able to finally use a strong metaphor (death) to explain my questions about life. I think I get a lot of my inspiration from this area of my thinking because I do have so many questions about things.

3. As a writer, I hate having direction and structure. However, I do feel that I need to be pushed to even start something because I am lazy. The writing is supposed to be an expression of your thoughts and ideas so to tell someone that you have to write about this, or you have to write about that, to me, is wrong. But it is neccessary to teach this class.

4. I don't really have any desire to pursue different areas of writing. I guess non-fiction would be cool, but it really doesn't matter. I would just like to write. A memoir would be cool too, but it'd be too early to write one at the age of 18.