ENTRY 3: Improved version of "I am a writer"

                                       I am a writer

   “I am a writer”, that is what I would like to say some day. I have always written songs or poems since I was a child, however I am not much good at that. Actually, it is not that I am not creative , the thing is that I see my writing ability as something complicated, involving different parts.

   Above all, writing is time consuming and sometimes I do not have the sufficient time to do it. Primarily because  I am not like those people who in less than an hour , they succeed in their writing,  on the contrary, I need time. Secondly, I need to be relaxed, that is why I tend to mellow myself by trying not to think about anything and keep my mind blank before writing. As well as being time and to be relaxed really important in my writing process, lack of rich vocabulary is also an important issue.

   With reference to vocabulary, what I do about it is reading and using the dictionary. It is not possible for me to write without one, otherwise I would never enrich my own vocabulary and I would use the same words, structures, every time I write. As regards the organization of my writing, or the steps that are advisable to follow, I try to consider them but I sometimes do it. It depends upon my mood and the time I have to create and finish a writing piece.

   To sum up, it is time, mood, vocabulary and stages for writing that I need to improve on in order to can say “I am a writer”.

WRITING STRATEGIES 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Iw9p2BoIigkU4jazoJE9c-hcke-f-toA2MITiEAB5DA/edit?usp=sharing

METACOGNITIVE REFLECTION

Despite knowing all the steps that can master my process of writing, I tend not to consider them every time I write. Since I do not have enough imagination and I change continuously my ideas when writing, I usually make a mental brainstorming and think about many different ideas without writing them. What is more, It is easier for me and less stressfull to write without taking into consideration the pre writing strategies, mainly because I am not used to do it. However, there are instances in which the pre writing strategy is really usefull, for instance when you are asked to consider them in you writing process or when you have to write about many different things in order to have clearer ideas. That is why I managed to make a braimstorming and list some ideas when I started to write the improved version of "I am a writer", however, I had not done so in the original one.