Friday, December 7, 2012

Reflective Essay



The drafts helped me put something down on the paper even if I was not fully sure of it. I was able to leave it and come back to revise it and polish it up. New insight attracted me. I never knew I had so many things to write about that could al be interesting to someone else. I have a filmmaker’s craft in writing. The structure of my writings is organized in scenes.  I write in a first person and third person’s perspective. I like to show things from different angles so that’s why I write in that perspective. 

I’m direct and indirect when I write. Sometimes I write things for people to know from the beginning but then sometimes I want them to figure it out as if they are watching a movie. I would want them to figure things out at the end but keep them intrigue enough to read the whole story. The audience I write for are people who like to be in other people’s business. People who watch documentary film are usually the people I want reading my writings. A creative non-fiction piece should be real. It should be the truth.  I make sure that I don’t offend anyone and make sure I’m fare.  The first thing I wrote about was how a photo could bring me back in time to realize something. Although that piece was good, there were some holes. I made my point but I made it too easy for the readers to understand. I realized that I’m the type of writer that connects past times with today.

I sit down, eat some food and listen to conversations about anything. One word may trigger me to write. For example, for my long essay, I had nothing to write about, I went to see my advisor about classes I needed to take. He pulled up my evaluation sheet and on that I seen a music class that I took at a community college. It triggered me to write about how I was only interesting in music my peers were listening to but then became in love with listening all sorts of music.

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