the boy asked...
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kismet09What are you like? What do you value? What are you good at? What do you want to improve?
I write like I think and talk -- I do it carefully, after I've put things together in my head, more or less, and choose my words to reflect what I want to say as accurately as I can. To break myself of being overly careful, I sometimes freewrite -- I make myself write in a stream of consciousness manner for 20 minutes or so without stopping. I write journal entries in my head all the time, and then forget them by the time I'm near a computer. I'm good at word choice, I'm decent at punctuation and grammar, I can convey what I want to convey. I don't have much use for writing in a professional manner right now, but I still try to write here, and in my written journal, which is getting pretty boring. This summer, I'll write about 500 pages of med school applicant summaries. That'll be fun. I like the synthesis projects like those. I'd like to get back to academic writing. I like it and I'm good at it, although I think I'm better at editing than I am at writing... actually, I think editing is easier than writing, so maybe that's why I gravitate in that direction.
What do you most often write? What kinds of writing have you done?
Most often, I write here. In the past, I've written mostly papers for classes (in English and French), lab reports, work reports, letters to friends... I write very little in fiction, but I really like critiquing other people's fiction.
What have you learned about writing and how did you learn?
I've never tried to formally learn anything. I recently read Eats, Shoots and Leaves, but it's the only grammar-type book I've ever picked up. I guess the most I've learned from are writing intensive classes -- I had to take an upper-level comp class in college because I was too lazy to take the test to place out of it, where I had to write persuasive essays and such, and got some feedback on my style. I think I learned the most from Peter Magolda, one of my grad profs, who is a stickler for concise writing.
I write like I think and talk -- I do it carefully, after I've put things together in my head, more or less, and choose my words to reflect what I want to say as accurately as I can. To break myself of being overly careful, I sometimes freewrite -- I make myself write in a stream of consciousness manner for 20 minutes or so without stopping. I write journal entries in my head all the time, and then forget them by the time I'm near a computer. I'm good at word choice, I'm decent at punctuation and grammar, I can convey what I want to convey. I don't have much use for writing in a professional manner right now, but I still try to write here, and in my written journal, which is getting pretty boring. This summer, I'll write about 500 pages of med school applicant summaries. That'll be fun. I like the synthesis projects like those. I'd like to get back to academic writing. I like it and I'm good at it, although I think I'm better at editing than I am at writing... actually, I think editing is easier than writing, so maybe that's why I gravitate in that direction.
What do you most often write? What kinds of writing have you done?
Most often, I write here. In the past, I've written mostly papers for classes (in English and French), lab reports, work reports, letters to friends... I write very little in fiction, but I really like critiquing other people's fiction.
What have you learned about writing and how did you learn?
I've never tried to formally learn anything. I recently read Eats, Shoots and Leaves, but it's the only grammar-type book I've ever picked up. I guess the most I've learned from are writing intensive classes -- I had to take an upper-level comp class in college because I was too lazy to take the test to place out of it, where I had to write persuasive essays and such, and got some feedback on my style. I think I learned the most from Peter Magolda, one of my grad profs, who is a stickler for concise writing.
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