Reflection

Reflection of the 101
This class has shocked and amazed me.  I usually hate to write and dread the occasional essay, but something about this class has opened me up to it.  I come in day to day with the excitement of the new write.  I have grown as a writer in this class, even though I still wouldn’t want to pursue it.  I never would have dreamed of sitting down for an hour and just like that creating a 2 page paper about anything off of the top of my head.  This class has helped me look beyond just the grammar and spelling portions of writing and directing me towards the creative and care free portions.  Granted, we do still do those things, but she has found a way to take away the stresses of doing such things.  My favorite story that I started in this class as a free write, was Harold.  Now I called it Harold of the rocks, for a while anyway to see if anyone noticed or commented about the title name choice, but I can’t actually call it that due to it being the name of a song.  This also had one of my favorite prompts to write about…insanity, split personality, and other worldly quirks.  I just can’t write enough about things like this.  It’s actually something that I could fill pages in minutes.
When I started this class, my first free write was a little slow going.  I would try to brainstorm quickly and try to come up with something, then attempt to write, but punctuation errors and spelling errors came quickly and on accident, so it killed the flow horribly.  I would constantly be hitting the backspace key and almost be thinking of the grammar, more than what I was actually writing.  If I could change one thing about this whole semester, it would be a better attendance for myself.