from freshman year to senior year...

Over the past four years, my writing has grown immeasurably. While I do like the pieces I wrote freshman year, they lack the fluidity of my pieces in senior year. From freshman year to senior year I have not only learned about good descriptions, but I have learned how to piece thoughts together in a manner that makes sense and works with the rest of the piece. I have also learned how to tell a story well and how to engage the reader. I have gone from a student with good thoughts and interesting, but obvious descriptions, to a writer who can take my thoughts and put them artistically onto paper in a way that not only makes sense to me, but to others as well. For the longest time I was very frustrated because I had difficulty correctly forming my thoughts into sentences the way I imagined they would be. This year I feel that I had a breakthrough with that; I finally felt like I could directly translate my ideas onto paper exactly how I wanted to. The following four pieces are examples from my writing during high school in descending order.