The Reflective: The Development Of Your Writing Skills

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Writing has not always been my forte, and initially, I used to employ every play within a student’s playbook to avoid writing. My fears and anxieties about writing were wearing me down, and I believed that avoiding it was the best solution I could come up with. However, at my current stage of education, writing is essential, and my plan started to fail as writing became unavoidable. I feared writing and but it gradually dawned on me that it is crucial that I get over my fears and work on improving my writing skills.
I have always been shy and having my weaknesses paraded has never been a popular thought with me, and hence my first weakness was self-doubt. As an insecure person, it became increasingly difficult to let other people help me much less talk to them about my problems. Consequently, I became a victim of self-doubt and this impacted my writing negatively. I reached a point where I did not trust my ideas and exposing my vulnerabilities was not something I could bring myself to do. However, as soon as I was able to face my fears, I developed a desire to overcome my fear of writing. I started to write more, and my mistakes were being exposed which helped me to focus on those areas more and slowly, but surely I have taken huge strides in becoming a good writer. Becoming an exceptional writer will indeed take a lot of time, but nothing seems far-fetched right now.
I experienced growth in some areas in my quest to grow my writing skills. One of the areas includes my storytelling abilities. Initially, I could not manage to a good much less average narrative essay. Howe...