Developing My Writing

In the past, I think I have mostly used Describing as my main developing strategy. For school work or for personal short-stories, I love describing everything. When I was much younger, I would shy away from describing the setting of a story and focus on character emotions/feelings/thoughts, but now that I am much older, I realize that describing the setting is important.

In high school english class, we had to do a lot of Argument-type essays. While I do see that it is important to learn how to write one, I don't usually write argumentative essays in my own free time. It was a good skill to learn though, since I know that english classes in the future will probably have me writing them all the time.

In high school, we also did a lot of compare/contrast essays. Those, in my opinion, are the easiest, especially if the teacher directly gives you two poems/essays/books to compare. I never really had trouble with compare/contrast essays, but they did improve over time.