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My Writing Experience Essay

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My experiences with writing, I feel, differ a good bit from how most people learn or choose to write. The way I learned to write lead me to how I prefer to write now- creatively, telling a story, and no rules or regulations in sight. This is because I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, and it all started with Pokemon fanfiction. Yes, you read that right, Pokemon fanfiction. It sounds a bit silly now, and it definitely goes to show that I’ve always been a dork. But my writing experiences, as a whole, have undoubtedly been shaped by the silly fanfiction I used to write, and I couldn’t be more grateful.
Kids have a unique relationship with writing. Most kids are very creative and are constantly coming up with stories to explain or change the reality around them. However, most of the time, those stories aren’t written down. They either stay inside the child’s mind, or they get brought into the world via speaking. But very rarely, I …show more content…

I wish that I had the same drive and desire to be a rebel that Daniel Felsenfeld did in Rebel Music. Felsenfeld did something that wasn’t popular; listening to classical music. It made him completely different from everyone else, and it led to him being happier in the long run. But I can’t write the way I want, at least not while I’m still in school. Because, as far as I’m concerned, my writing will never be perfect; and if it’s not perfect, it’s not worth doing.
What an awful line of thinking, huh? Logically, I know that nothing is perfect, even writing. I know that every book and every piece of literature ever written has flaws. But that still doesn’t stop me from hitting a mental roadblock every time I try to write. I have thousands and thousands of story ideas that cross my mind every day. Most of them will never develop into anything worthwhile. There are a couple, however, that

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