What Writing Means to Me: Writing Is a Marriage

Writing and I have a love-hate relationship… I’ll get to the marriage metaphor shortly. Sometimes I approach writing enthusiastically with loads of creative ideas and excitement. Other times, I dread it. I kick and scream. I procrastinate until the last minute, simply because I can not think of anything I would rather do less than whatever writing assignment I have been tasked with completing.

Me when I'm excited about writing

When I was younger, writing was an outlet for me to express myself and my feelings. As I got older and writing became a part of my education and grades, that is when the honeymoon phase for writing and I ended. It wasn’t all bad after that, but the spark and excitement that had been there before was

now gone.

Me when I don't like the prompt/assignment

I stopped looking at writing as a creative outlet and opportunity to show my skills, and more as a burden. Like a marriage, writing is something that needs to be worked on and is not always going to be fun and happy. There will be nights when you want to pull your hair out, scream, and cry. But there will also be times where writing, or in this metaphor, the marriage, will give you a sense of accomplishment, pride, and joy.

Now that I’ve explained my relationship with writing, here’s some insight on me as a writer. Humbly, I would like to think that I am a pretty good writer. I was fortunate enough to be able to go to great schools growing up, and learned how to write academically and excellently. While I do think that I’m not the worst writer on the

Me hyping myself up when I write something

face of the planet, I definitely know that along with my strengths, come some weaknesses. For instance, I think that I am good at using a variety of words and making my sentences flow nicely. However, I tend to be quite lengthy and have a hard time sticking to word limits. I guess I have a lot to say… even when I don’t want to be writing.

The idea of multiliteracies fascinates me, and motivates me to be more creative and excited about my writing. I think it’s so cool that a picture, video, advertisement, news segment, and journals can all be forms of literacy. Since starting this class and this online portfolio, writing and I have been on the love side of our relationship, and I think this new attitude will show through my writing in my portfolio.

Thanks for reading!