Postgame

Alright I made it. Game over. It was a tough 4 years, or 4 quarters. Finally, I can relax.
Writing workshop over the years has taught me a lot. I have always enjoyed to write, but at the beginning of high school, I was lacking the experience that I needed to become a better writer across the board. I have learned how to take more risks with my writing and I have learned how to work harder with my writing. This year was the first time in all of high school that I actually had to do some research for my pieces. I wrote a poem about Abraham Lincoln that I had to do research on and then as I just described for my name piece, I had to do research for that as well. Overall, my writing has now progressed to the point where I am not afraid to try new types of writing and I'm not afraid to do a little research either.

This year in Creative Writing, we were given some unusual writing prompts, but these were the prompts that really helped me grow as a writer. Trial and error is what helped me grow the most. Coming to all of my conferences, if something wasn't right with one of my pieces, I would go back to my computer and work with the piece until I got it right. Another thing that helped my writing grow was that Creative Writing this year was all about writing. Previous years, it was harder to grow as a writer when you had to juggle working on writing workshop and other class assignments at the same time.

I do still have many struggles though. I often write waaaaaay too much than I need to. This isn't the worst thing that I could be struggling with, but it would help my efficiency if I could learn to condense my thoughts the first time around, rather than going back and having to delete a bunch of stuff.

For the future of my writing... I don't really know what's going to happen. I write for the school paper right now and I want to continue to do that in college, so that has a lot of potential to help improve my writing. I also know that my passion for writing will never go away. The ways in which I will express my writing in the future may be slightly uncertain, but I'll find some way to continuing writing, besides the endless amount of essays I'll be writing in college. The game of high school writing is over, but I've got another game starting next August. History often repeats itself. The only difference this time around is that the next game is going to cost a lot more money.