As a writer, I have always felt most comfortable when writing papers from an objective point of view. Therefore, any time I am asked to write about myself, or from a personal place, it is a challenge for me. My biggest concern when telling a story about myself, or just in general, is that there is no purpose for telling it. I constantly have to ask myself if there is a meaning or reason behind my narratives or if I am just boring the reader with some story that does not affect their life at all. This memoir assignment was no exception.
For this memoir, I chose to write about a surgery for a fairly large conflict in my life that has been going on for almost 20 weeks now. It was difficult for me to stick to the plot that I had intended; I would throw myself so far into the paper that I would write more like a therapy session than an actual assignment. I kept having to remind myself that I had an audience and that my writing needed to be clear and comprehendible for them. The outline that I made as a pre-writing technique also helped keep me on track, it reminded me of where I was supposed to go in the narrative and how I planned on getting there. While it was easier to just write about myself and things that do not really matter to the purpose of the narrative, I needed to cut back and stick to the meaning.
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My memoir shows how I was faced with a possibly life-changing threat and how I took the necessary steps to try and prevent my condition from worsening. I wish that I would have gone more into depth on how I made peace with the fact that I am at such a high risk for going deaf. I think it would have strengthened the purpose behind my narrative a little more and potentially even give the reader something more to learn from or connect with. However, I am happy with how I concluded my