A+ Writing Day

Barb Skoff

Expository Writing

9 September 2003

A+ Writing Day

The writing process can be difficult at times and then other times it can be therapeutic and comforting. Are there bad days of writing? Definitely! Are there good days for writing? Of course! The good days are many. I remember many wonderful times of writing and how it helped me to get through some difficult times and also some wonderful memories were written on paper.

I recall when I was in elementary school and writing a poem for a class project. The words seemed to flow. Of course my vocabulary skills were minimal, so the poem matched my level of ability and rhyming words and used easy words to rhyme such as: flag-brag; corn-born; etc… The feeling of accomplishment was wonderful and having my poem published in the district paper made me feel that I could someday grow up to be a poet.

There have been days when I sat down to write a paper and gave much thought as to what would sound appropriate for the topic, and hopefully make sense to the reader. I can recall times when I sat down to compose and really felt at ease and comfortable with the topic that was given to me. The words seemed to ‘pop’ into my head. I believe the reason this paper seemed to flow so readily is because the topic was one I was very familiar with; fetal distress.

When given the opportunity to write about a subject I had experienced, I was positive I knew I would do well with the content. All I had to worry about was the punctuation and grammar. I sat down and typed about the experiences of childbirth with my husband’s and my firstborn. I lived it, so it was very familiar to me. It was very traumatic making each detail distinct in my mind.

The task of writing of that paper was also therapeutic. Although the incident had happened twenty years before, it was a time where, although I had often talked about it, I had never written it down. Writing about it seemed to bring it all back in memory flashes and it...