2011년 9월 1일 목요일

About myself as a writer

"I really want to be a writer!!I want to give a hope to children by writing a bright story:)"
This is my ambitious dream that I had when I was in elementary school.
At that time, for me, being a writer seemed so obvious. The reason was simple. I thought that there were only 10 jobs like teacher(which is my mom's job), salaryman(it is my dad's job), writer, and so on. And among those ten jobs, writer seemed to be the most interesting and enjoyable job. Expressing the mixture of sentiment, imagination, and sometimes logic into words and sentences! That's something that I wanted to try.
But when I thought 'writing' as something that I should earn money or get a prize in the contest, I started to get a lot of stress. Whenever I couldn't think of the subject to write, I was very depressed at young age. Kind of hilarious nowadays when thinking about that.
Well..as time passes, I started to look 'writing' differently.
"Why don't I write for my own pleasure?"
Then, everything changed.
I started to write my journal, something that I could comfortably do all my 'blah blah blah's. Sometimes I wrote about Everland that I went with my friends, something that I felt from TV documentary, and even the boy that I liked so much. (That 'boy' changed annually, directly affected by the change of grade and class) While writing my diary, that diary became my 'companion'. Not just writing down what happened that day, but also I wrote my feelings that I felt from certain events or even others. After I had a conflict with my parents or my friends, I just let out those experiences to my diary. Sometimes with nagging, explanations for excuses. While writing all of those, I could relieve my stress from those conflicts.
My journal writing continued until I entered KMLA. It was a new world for me. THE world of Honjung-bread, morning exercise, and roomates. It was fresh, yet too sudden. I spent 1 months adjusting to the new life, and rest of the first semester studying and playing. Journal writing was forgotten.
But recently, I started to write my journal. And I feel very comfortable when writing about my trivial but interesting events, some thoughts that I had from people or even from little plants.
Well, writing in a casual way is one of the strength that I have. But the weaknesses that I have can be some grammatical mistakes, word usage, etc. To improve those weaknesses, I'm planning to read a lot of articles from TIME magazine and english books. As I think that reading is very helpful in many ways, reading TIME magazine section to section can help me know how to write 'professional' essays and the current issues. Although I'm having a hard time reading English texts, but someday I believe I can improve that. Moreover, I want to write a lot. Like I'm doing now, I'll write my journal everyday and practice some articles. By practicing my plan, I could achieve my goal which is to improve and ENJOY english writing.
I'll post other writings that I wrote in first semester. I hope you enjoy!!^^

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  1. Thanks for all the posts, Soho. And I have to comment on your name - very unique and memorable which is also the impression I get from your narrative anecdotes. Your strength is definitely in charm and humor, as you have a bright sort of honest voice that really shines through. I wish I saw more of that in college essays, as it does leave an impression with the reader.

    You are also right that you need to focus on getting your grammar to the next level - which you seem to be approaching. The flow and rhythm you have when you write personally and creatively isn't as strong when you write academically (where I noticed a bit of choppiness and repetition). I also suggest you clean up some formatting issues - primarily with your use of (parenthesis) which is a bit random.

    I think you'll be fine by the time you become a senior - as you're going to be reading and writing and speaking English constantly. Right? EOP and all that. : ) I had a good laugh at what you wrote about your strange cousin (who is almost the same age as me). I'm sure he means well, and is probably overcompensating for something (misses having a little sister?).

    And very funny image of a little kid in a casino wearing ski goggles. Random, weird, but funny.

    All in all, absolutely no problems with comedic writing with a personal touch!

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