Looking back on Nonfiction Writing
This class has been pretty good so far. I think I've learned a lot about the process of writing and writing itself, and I think I have definitely improved as a writer, at the very least in terms of the time it takes me to write an essay. For NonFic I have tried to write about things that I truly cared about, rather than just things that I need to write because there is a paper or a blog post due. That has worked out sometimes, and other times it hasn't, but all of it is a learning process. And I mean that in more ways than one: I have gotten better at thinking through writing. Usually when I think what I do is I poke at a thought constantly in my head until I have it figured out, often forgetting where it was I was going in the first place. But when I write the sentence down, I am forced to really think it through, and if I forget it, I can always look back and read what my thoughts were. I think that has helped my writing a lot. Also, I think another important thing that I hav