Analysis Of My Writing Weaknesses

Throughout this creative writing unit, I’ve grown as a writer. I have discovered writing weaknesses I have, and acknowledged some of my writing strengths. I also got to read and critique some of my peers papers which helped me grow and learn as a writer about what works well and what may not. A lesson I learned from my friends is that, when starting a narrative, make sure it starts as a story instead of an essay. By starting a narrative as a story, I mean that it should start in a scene or with a cool quote and not with a statement that directly or indirectly answers the prompt of the narrative. By doing this, the story sounds my fluid and natural in my opinion and more like a story, not an assignment. My first draft did not have
In my second draft my main strength was plot again, but another one of my strengths was that the story was well detailed, due to my revisions of going more in depth on my trip. My weakness then became my opening paragraph, which wasn’t as attention grabbing as my original draft since I altered the setting of the story. My story didn’t start with dialogue like my first draft because I started on the plane ride instead of the original setting where I was at home. So I changed my hook by adding a little more imagery. My original second draft hook was about my view on my plane that foreshadowed what would happen later in the story. To make this second hook better, I changed it to talk about what I saw on the plane, which was metaphoric of what would happen later in the story. My second draft was an improvement but still had flaws.

Then on my third and final draft, I had pretty much no flaws. The criticism I received was grammar errors, which were easy to fix. The readers of my third draft thought that the structure of my story was fine. They liked my hook, plot, and setting. All of my previous weaknesses, I had turned into strengths. My story flowed well and was interesting, due to it initially coming off as a trip to Disney World and not a time in my life of self-growth. The grammar problems I had, mainly were comma errors that took a couple minutes to
I learned that detail is important to a story, that the setting is crucial, and that the opening paragraph is important. I also got to refine the writing skills I had prior to the assignment. Skills I have and displayed are creativity, through my story plot and the ability of keeping the reader interested in my story, through my use of imagery and detail. In the future, I hope to turn the lessons I learned into major strengths, in my writing. I also hope to further the strengths I already have and to do better with my grammar and spelling in the first draft. I can’t wait for the next creative writing