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What I Feel and Think Towards Writing In English
"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean"
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Most of the good men of the past like Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare were known NOT because of their courageous and heroic deeds but their ability to TOUCH hearts, TEACH minds and TRANSFORM lives through writing.
I had been writing English ever since I knew how. I've written some poems, essays and even short stories just because I'm told so. I also write to answer essay parts of an examination and quizzes but I'm NEVER fond of it. It doesn't really mean that I 'suck' but it's just that I am trying to avoid negative criticisms. Also, I HATE comments! Well, there was once that we were tasked to write anything about things we like or simply a "Term Paper". Then, there was a schoolmate of mine who suggested wrong things to change some parts of my paper and I felt shocked and partly angry. The point is that due to negative criticisms, I started to hate writing and never wrote again...
Well, writing in English is pretty awkward to my part. I need to observe all things necessary-- the grammar, spelling and even some punctuations and etc. Also, writing English is very tedious especially when you only have limited knowledge and vocabulary with of you. Well, I'm not really a bookworm or a reader that's why I only knew words I normally encounter everyday. Well, we have dictionaries at home but I never have the slightest force to open a thin sheet of paper just to look the meaning of a word whenever I hear one.
Today, it's pretty much a challenge to me writing and composing some stuffs in English. I need to recall all the things to be observed since it has already been a while. But I'm expecting and hoping that I'll finally learn to love writing this semester with the help of my NEW classmates and my NEW teacher...
...Hopefully :)
November 28, 2009 at 12:20 PM
You have written quite a lot for someone who doesn't "like" writing. That only means you like to write.:-)