As a pastime I enjoy writing short stories mostly. I love creating characters or delving deeper into someone else's characters and trying to write something that would be true to that character but with my own plot, so virtually, fan-fiction. But mostly I like creating characters of my own and delving into what makes them act the way they do and their past slowly through writing.
I mostly enjoy reading fiction. I have grown a large distaste for teen fiction because their plots are usually very predictable and heavily focused on unrealistic, sappy romance with unrealistically perfect boys, and girls, some times. I enjoy reading the classics and currently I am enjoying "Les Miserables" and "Atlas Shrugged." I feel like, generally speaking, the classics have good, unpredictable plots and deep characters which is what I enjoy. I don't like predictability or a plot that doesn't vary among the genre.
As a writer I believe my strong points lie in my creativity, my descriptiveness, and my characters. I take great pride in the detail I put into my characters to make them into realistic, relatable characters with real flaws that cause real conflict. My weaknesses would probably be in my descriptiveness as well. I tend to have cluttered, telling and not showing sort of writing because I want to get all the description in my head out and make sure everyone understands what I'm trying to get across.
I'm taking Writer's Craft to better my writing class and better be able to write in general. Writing is a very good trait to have in society and I want to learn skills that I can apply to all writing in the future.
As for where I want my writing to go, I would like to be able to better analyse characters and plots and the motivations of characters. I want to be able to write and be clear and get a point across without being over-descriptive and have my works full of clutter.
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