Past, Present and the Future

Since the beginning of time or first grade for me, I have never found myself to be a great writer or even a decent writer and I believe that is because the points that I try to get across are sometimes misinterpreted into being something else. I can remember as far back as the first grade when our entire class took a trip down to the school library and we were asked to all pick out your favorite reading material. Some students in the class chose “Where’s Waldo” while most other chose the book and series titled “Clifford the big red dog”. I choose to pick up the “ESPN” magazine and the only reason why I choose it was because I was interested in the mini player cards that came with the magazine. Every once in a while I would read some of the articles if they pertained to my favorite player, but I believe that this set the path for me and the choices that I would make in the future regarding the subject of English and eventually would come into play when it involved my writing skills.
After my slight interest in reading magazines while younger, my interests for magazines doubled when I entered high school. During high school I took a total of 4 very different English classes, two of which were with the same teacher, this same teacher is the only person to ever tell me that I have the potential to become whatever kind of writer I want to become. My teacher saw something in my early screenplays that seemed to amaze him and in turn he pushed me to become better and better. For many people reading and writing is extremely difficult to do. I am no different than anyone else, I believe that with the help of my teacher he pushed me in the right direction and showed me an entirely new doorway which I had the choice to step through it or not. My biggest fault is the fact that I try to take the first shortcut that I can find just to finish first; I will be the first to admit that I am lazy to a certain degree. Randy Moss the wide reciever from the New England Patriots had one of my favorite quotes of all time, Randy said “I play and I block when I want to” that is basically how I feel when it comes to writing. Before I took this class, I only read magazines and the magazines that I did read were Money, Hot Rod Magazine and Popular Science. This put a temporary damper on my writing skills and did not help increase my reading skills. Before this course I was in the Text-self stage. For most sentences in all of my papers I used the word “I”. That was one of my biggest problems when writing papers in high school.
Now at the moment I believe that my writing skills are at their highest point that they have ever been at. With all of the English classes that I have taken, none have ever required as much reading and writing as English 333 has. I know that my writing still needs a lot of improvements but this class is teaching me a lot about myself as a writer and I find it interesting how my procrastinating and basically laziness effects my writing, examples can be found in several blog posts most notably in the blog post for 9/11 which was a very short blog regarding Pulp Fiction. In the post I did a horrible job describing what was going on in the story and I did not follow the guidelines for our blogs. I know that I should be in the stage of Text-Other Texts but I do not believe that I am 100% there just yet. The word “I” still makes a strong appearance in my current work and shows up in almost every sentence in this blog.
When it comes to answering common questions that arise in the world, I believe that I am improving on my writing skills but I do plan on putting forth as much effort and dedication as possible. I do want to be at the stage of Text-World by the end of the semester. I believe that I will be able to decipher a story to the best of my ability and apply what I have learned and plan to learn to better suit myself for my future and to provide something interesting to read. If you read the very first blog post that I have written for the course, the comments are what I base my future off of. I believe that is an example for Text-World.