“I AM A WRITER” (Improved version):

They say I am one of the best writers of the world, and that my imagination goes far beyond that any pagan tale or legend. Anyway, we all know that people always want to escape from reality, and what I do is just give them the tools. What any of them do not know, is that I am not the brilliant mind they think. The truth is that I just write down what I have really experienced in my childhood and adolescence times.

I lived in the countryside, there in Alabama, for many years. I used to play in cotton fields and take care of my father’s animals in the farm. My life there was hard but simple, and my family and I could experienced many supernatural events. People think that my stories are unreal and that my great mind invents everything. I have always tried to convince them of the opposite because a good writer has to be trusted. My brother has experienced some of those supernatural episodes with me. My father, among other things, assured having seen how one of the rabbits from the farm took a human shape every sunset and disappeared in the woods. My family has always believed that our farm had some kind of strange supernatural force that made us see things that could not be real. We thought that the farm was enchanted and had a special energy.

However, I changed my mind about it last year when I was in my book presentation in England. When the ceremony was over, I was captured by three aliens who just wanted to get their book signed by me. It was a great experience, but nobody believes in any of my stories when I try to get deeper on them. People think I am a professional neurotic, but the truth is that I am just a writer telling them real supernatural experiences.

Reflection about my writing:

Although we know which are the steps to follow when we start writing something, we tend to write directly an unclear draft with the ideas that come first to our minds. My first draft of “I am a writer” had disorganized ideas, bad punctuation and grammar, and poor coherence and cohesion. Then, at home, i had to think about the piece of writing itself and take down notes about ideas that i would like to include or change.

By reading once more the explanation about the 5 steps of writing, i could think clearer about  the audience, the narrative style of my draft and the main idea of my final essay. It also gave me a guide of how to organize my ideas in paragraphs. The drafting step is very helpful because i could change it many times, but my problem is that i always start my writings without a prewriting step, and i have an unclear general idea of what i am about to write in a first draft.

Donda, A., & Paparatto, C. (2013). The writing process. Retrieved from

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u-cZjqxpPINlpsSkLbLUip6-ZXYvOxNewex-Ur6crxs/edit