Brian Ingebretsen
5/9/14
ENGL 1A
The
Ink within a Heart
My
literary history is somewhat in its prepubescent stages; I understand the
dynamics and mechanics but I have yet to do anything remarkable with it. I
enjoy writing to the fullest extent; I love where your ideas can take you and I
love the satisfaction of creating well thought out and profound statements such
as this one. To me, writing brings about blissful solace while simultaneously delivering
a message that is both powerful and assertive, cementing the written word as
the pinnacle of the conveyance of ideas. The writing in my life will be ever
changing and with the help that I have received from my teachers combined with
what I learned from my experiences, I know that my writing ability has only begun
to blossom.
I grew up in the small town called Pleasanton in the
state of California and I took to reading at young age. I loved reading so much
that it developed into a love of writing theory and from then on I would always picture and plot
the perfect ideas of how to properly write important essays and how to create
grand spectacles with story writing. Having a novice and premature writing
though process, along with only using the diction and syntax that I had known
at the time, it’s safe to say that in my early years I wasn’t a very
good writer. I had many
great ideas but due to my stubbornness and laziness, they rarely got out onto
paper which is ironic because if I wasn’t told to write, my ideas would flood
onto the paper and many wonderful stories would be born onto the Earth. Little
by little, however, I learned how to write more importantly and under time
constraints getting my ideas across in a creative and relevant way; I grew out
of my stubbornness and began to write. Once I got into high school, my
writing had just passed the threshold of mediocrity which meant that I had been
underprepared for what the higher education had in store for me. This would
prove to be my downfall in the beginning but with the right teachers, I had trekked into a new
dimension of writing that I had never once entered before. I was able to add
emotion into my writing, it wasn’t just a school essay anymore and it was a
testament to myself and to what I have been through. I used my experiences to
fuel the paper, I professed
tangible emotion to the reader so they would remain entranced and become unable
to place the paper down. I had done this even for the most obscure of papers
such as a book review or a compare and contrast piece because that creative and
romantic spark had electrified my style. However, I was still missing
the story telling aspect of my writing, I had the connections and the depth but
I needed to develop my story. At about the same time I was just beginning
American Literature in my junior year of high school with a teacher who had a
reputation of being one of the hardest and whom, indeed, lived up to the name. During that period of
writing growth, I had to read many American Classics including F. Scott
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby which, still to this day, is my all-time
favorite novel. There was a distinction to the book; so much description,
emotion, and romance all in an elegant story about the harsh morality of the
1920s and its customs. This had launched the inception for what kind of writer
I had wanted to be; I wanted to dance in my paper, to journey to distant lands
and live out the adventures being portrayed such as the way Fitzgerald throws
you into the being that is Nick Carraway. Though it was difficult, I developed that new
story aspect to my writing therefore completing my goal, now I could now tell a story
with depth and emotion by taking my experiences and my emotions and letting
them pour into whatever I was writing. This especially helped with scholastic
research essays in particular because I could apply my own experiences and
emotions to the facts that I cite and actually make my paper alive not just the
bland and robotic factual paper that is the norm at school. Mrs. Pagtakhan is her name, my
English teacher at the time, and she is the defining figure in my journey of
the written word because she helped us crtitque our essays as if we were all
literary scholars. There was never an A paper in the class but the way that she
taught you to write made you feel as if you had gotten a phenomenal score ,
with her tips and tricks to the occasional blast on the paper, she helped me
really get into what I was writing and dive deep into the material. Now that I have entered college
I believe that I have all of the ingredients to conceive a fantastic paper and
maybe even someday, a novel.
Unbeknownst to myself, my writing achievement had also
affected my personality and the way I look at others. I learned to convey more
emotion and look at things in regards to depth and symbolism to fully
understand someone. My
emotional growth came, not in the form of writing, but in the form of
psychoanalysis which opened my eyes to what humans really think and feel. I
learned what triggered emotions and how to trigger emotions, I learned that we
are all uniquely different even if we look the same and because of the
experience I have learned to view humans in a more eloquent light. This
understanding allowed me to humanize as well as romanticize my papers to make a
lasting effect on the reader and to even help them perceive things in a more
eloquent and thoughtful light. With these developing skills I am ready to
succeed in my college career and into my future, using this ability at work,
with my family, and my everyday life. I am a biological science major
and my goal is to become a forensic biologist who works in a lab and uses
superior skill to solve cases and provide justice back into a dangerous world.
Though the only writing I would be doing would consist of lab reports and
police reports, my people skills will help me just as much as the evidence. If
I can make the suspects or victims comfortable I can get more out of them,
using their valuable information to help stop a killer or a thief. With this
new skill, I can already see the stars of success in my future.
Writing encompasses everything that we do whether it is
scientifically or personally related. It takes us places that we may or may not
want to go it’s that powerful and affects the way people feel towards one
another. Writing divides and pulls together, it hurts and heals, and it
ultimately makes the world a better place. Writing is a time machine, it is a future entity and it
can stop violence which makes it an invaluable skill to mankind. Writing
is viewed in hundreds of different perspectives; right now you are feeling
different about reading this than I am writing it. There are different
experiences that can go into an essay like this and those experiences often
turn the paper into a completely different story. This is why the concept of
writing will never be perfected and why it will keep on changing and improving
and getting better, there will always be different interpretations of writing
as well as different feelings towards it.
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