What would one of my readers not know about me yet? Well that is a loaded question. Actually- I feel like my answer is kind of backwards.
My writing this semester has revealed more about myself that I ever expected it would. My Why I Write piece touched on personal experiences I don’t bring up unless necessary and my remediation project brought out my commentary on University teaching I didn’t know I even had strong feelings about. I think the biggest struggle for me is the opposite of what I thought the answer to this question should be. It seems like I should be responding saying that my reader doesn’t know I actually had this traumatic experience that is underlying each word I choose and that I’m keeping secrets- but that isn’t true.
My writing may as well be the only thing I am ever straightforward in. My work is honest and has found the space within me where I’m actually willing to say how I feel and describe it. I don’t even enjoy talking about that out loud actually (as I’m sure people could tell when we did that videotaping in class), my writing is personal in that it says what I sometimes struggle to say out loud.
I think my MIW work is awesome. Not in that I think my paper’s need blue ribbons on them, although that could be cool) but in that it is expanding these doors I didn’t know needed to be opened. I think that I can take a reader on a ride throughout my portfolio of seeing a completely different angle of myself that they may never meet. It is scary and a little weird to think about- but something I didn’t see coming and sometimes that can be the best types of things in all.
Jess!
I can’t wait to see your portfolio and especially after seeing your website for the re-mediation. It’s really cool that you’re finding yourself more in your writing than in anything else and it’s also really cool that you’re excited about that. I think I can definitely relate to what you’re saying about this class pulling things out of you that you weren’t aware of before. For my Why I Write and for a lot of what’s going on my portfolio I began writing poetry again and more creative pieces which are different than what I face every day in my science major.
I get where you’re coming from about getting to write on topics you didn’t know you felt so strongly about. This class definitely has let us all kind of find new interests and I think really help cultivate in ourselves new thoughts about things we rarely think about on a day to day basis.
Anyway, I can’t wait to see your portfolio!
I’m the same way! One of my main topics in the “Why I Write Essay” had to do with the outlet that writing gave me that speaking couldn’t. I tend to write down everything that I can’t get down and that sometimes inhibits me as a speaker, especially when I need to talk about something serious. I’m really excited to see how you’re going to form your portfolio as a sort of “sneak peak” to your life. It can almost be some sort of open diary that you have your reader glance in to.
I think that it is great that you can have an outlet through writing to say things you wouldn’t say out loud. It is important to have something like that. I wrote about that in my why I write essay because I feel similar about my writing.