Preface
In this page I will be posting my Narrative Project for my English Composition class. I will also be posting my drafts as I work towards the finished product and improve on my writing. Click on this link to access the Narrative Project Assignment Sheet.
The last time I have done a narrative writing was probably back in elementary school. After that, my school only assigned us those typical research projects and other more serious and boring papers. These were some of the reasons why I was afraid to post any of my work in the beginning, I was never really taught to write this way. I never had to think about motifs or symbols in the past because I only stayed within one genre. I also never thought of writing as a process because I grew up within a system that only cared about the final product, the grades. I do have a journal back at home but I had never let anyone but myself to see my own work. To me, narrative writing helps people find their author identity and to some people like myself, it is also a form of healing. It is fun to do but it is not done enough or taught by schools. I am glad that my Professor, Sabatino Mangini, has given his students the opportunity to write in this genre.
In my 2 previous blogs, Composing an Emotional Scene and Composing an Emotional Scene with Dialog & Symbolism, I had let out my emotions and personal experiences in my writing. It was difficult to write both of them at first because these were moments that were very painful to me and I barely talked about them with anyone. For the blog post, Composing an Emotional Scene, I spoke about the last moments I had with my friends in the Philippines. I spoke about how much fun I had with them and that I miss home very much until today. It was the first time I had ever composed a scene like that, one that was personal and involved my feelings. It gave me the opportunity to explore my emotions through writing and has also helped push me to make the next blog assignment which evoked even deeper emotions. I will actually be using that blog, the one with Dialog & Symbolism as the basis for my Narrative Project. It is about my actual last day in the Philippines and the last moments I had with my father which my siblings and I have a very complicated relationship with. Doing the second blog assignment, Writing Process Roundtable, has also helped me explore and become more comfortable with writing with dialog which you will see later in my memoir. In summary, for that blog, I had to pull out several quotes from 3 different texts and make it seem like the authors were having a conversation with me about the writing process.
Writing these blogs have helped me become more comfortable with sharing my emotional experiences and accept and understand the process of writing. It’s helped me reflect on the past and it gave me a better perspective on my life. For more insight into the things I've learned throughout this course and while writing this memoir, you can read my blog post, My Narrative Project: A Wizard-of-Oz Journey, and watch my youtube video about my Midterm Reflection.
The last time I have done a narrative writing was probably back in elementary school. After that, my school only assigned us those typical research projects and other more serious and boring papers. These were some of the reasons why I was afraid to post any of my work in the beginning, I was never really taught to write this way. I never had to think about motifs or symbols in the past because I only stayed within one genre. I also never thought of writing as a process because I grew up within a system that only cared about the final product, the grades. I do have a journal back at home but I had never let anyone but myself to see my own work. To me, narrative writing helps people find their author identity and to some people like myself, it is also a form of healing. It is fun to do but it is not done enough or taught by schools. I am glad that my Professor, Sabatino Mangini, has given his students the opportunity to write in this genre.
In my 2 previous blogs, Composing an Emotional Scene and Composing an Emotional Scene with Dialog & Symbolism, I had let out my emotions and personal experiences in my writing. It was difficult to write both of them at first because these were moments that were very painful to me and I barely talked about them with anyone. For the blog post, Composing an Emotional Scene, I spoke about the last moments I had with my friends in the Philippines. I spoke about how much fun I had with them and that I miss home very much until today. It was the first time I had ever composed a scene like that, one that was personal and involved my feelings. It gave me the opportunity to explore my emotions through writing and has also helped push me to make the next blog assignment which evoked even deeper emotions. I will actually be using that blog, the one with Dialog & Symbolism as the basis for my Narrative Project. It is about my actual last day in the Philippines and the last moments I had with my father which my siblings and I have a very complicated relationship with. Doing the second blog assignment, Writing Process Roundtable, has also helped me explore and become more comfortable with writing with dialog which you will see later in my memoir. In summary, for that blog, I had to pull out several quotes from 3 different texts and make it seem like the authors were having a conversation with me about the writing process.
Writing these blogs have helped me become more comfortable with sharing my emotional experiences and accept and understand the process of writing. It’s helped me reflect on the past and it gave me a better perspective on my life. For more insight into the things I've learned throughout this course and while writing this memoir, you can read my blog post, My Narrative Project: A Wizard-of-Oz Journey, and watch my youtube video about my Midterm Reflection.
My previous blog assignments before writing this memoir:
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