Blog 16 - Reflective Essay Contemplation

• In this course, I learned that factual writing could be just as powerful as fictional writing depending on the writer’s execution and presentation.
• From writing my personal essay, I utilized segmentation. I have never done that before. From that point forward, I rather abused it for future literature I was designing. I also italicized specifics junctures in me pieces to highlight them from the rest.
• The hardest essay for me to write in this class was perhaps the Nature Essay. I had to actually do research before writing about geese. I have seen the ones I spoke of in the essay countless times but never knew what type of geese they were let alone their latin name.
• The essay that I felt pushed me the most as a writer was the personal essay. I had to write within certain limits. Especially in regards to the terminology I was using and presenting to the reader. It was the first essay we wrote actually, and I don't really write non-fiction. Fiction is so easy to grab the readers attention with. you can write about dragons and knights with huge swords and bright white teeth. Non-Fiction on the other hand lacks otherworldy things such as magical broomsticks and elves.
• I want my reflective essay to basically emphasize what I deal with when I write. Not so much as the where or the why, but the writer's block or the arranging of things in the sentences that make up the esssay as a whole.
• I don't want to talk about the memoir or the literary journal. The memoir I felt was kind of all over the place. I was pretty disappointed in it actually. The journal I feel is the exact same thing....I'm disappointed with it. I'm not sure if it was my lack of ability to focus on the peice as a whole or if it was due to the requirmenets, but I just did not like those two essays at all.