In this blog post, I will be reflecting on my choices that I have made regarding my Life-Choice Memoir. We were required to watch a video called Reflective Writing to assist with our writing the memoir. This post will answer a few questions about my process and choices. While composing my Life-Choice Memoir, I chose not to work with anyone because I was not sure which direction I wanted my story to take and feel as though that would have made it difficult for the other person working with me. This approach worked the best for me because I believe my memoir will be more authentic by working alone. I am using two rhetorical modes, those being description and exposition. Description is the showing writing and exposition is the telling writing. The genre I am writing in is creative nonfiction and the subgenre is a memoir. I started writing this project as soon as the project was explained in detail. This helped me to gather more information about how I was going to write and exactly why I was writing. I believe this was a good approach because my writing will be reflective of what I have learned. I wrote this project in a few places and I must admit, I am still not finished. I wrote a majority in class surprisingly. I think the classroom setting limits the distractions that constantly surround me and when I come to class, I am prepared to write. I also wrote part of it outside in a grass field because I like feeling the breeze and the sun on my skin. Being surrounded by nature makes me happy and I am more inclined to motivate myself to write if I am feeling good. I believe this was a wonderful approach because it assisted in me getting all the jumbled up ideas that were swimming around in my head, down on paper. Choosing the topic was definitely the most challenging decision when it came to this memoir because I could not think of one specific time that I had to make a difficult decision since I have made many of them. However, I decided to choose the most important one and that was to live. Every day I feel grateful for making that decision. Writing this narrative, I felt very vulnerable but proud of myself that I had the courage to write about the things I never talk about. It also helped me to come to peace with certain elements that I found to be very embarrassing. I will continue to revise my narrative by focusing more on descriptive writing and figuring out which details are and are not important.
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