It has been sometime ago when I first tried to write something, using random traces, figures and other pseudoletters in my school days.
The first thing I remember is me trying to draw some letters, imitating their shapes, repeating in a notebook the way in which those letters had to be written. Those exercises were so many, repeating once and again the shapes until they are drawn correctly. It was a very weary task.
Later the exercises become more practical; mixing syllabes and trying to make words, sometimes we compete each other reproduing the word we heard, or watching an object and writing it as closer as it is.
The final exercises has been always oral text repetition's written on the notebook as accurate as possible. It was a mechanical exercise and I felt that it was unproductive and became a rutine for everybody. Nevertheless, I can say that I have enjoyed writing from the beginning of my process.
Well as I said to Ricardo the exercise was intended for u to write "you as a writer". But u just mentioned ur childhood. When I read ur text I feel u use long phrases to say something, u should be more practical, in this way the reader won't get lost. Eg: "the first thing I remember is me trying to draw"... Firstly, I remember I tried to draw...
ReplyDeleteIn the third paragraph you shoud put a period before sometimes.
As I can infer from ur text, for u, writing and drawing is the same, r u sure of that? If so, you should clarify this idea and support it with the results. For example to say how it helped u with ur writing.
You used words like "repeat" "weary" "mechanical" "unproductive" so I thought u were disapointed with the way u learnt to write but at the end u said that u enjoyed it... So I believe u should emphasize from the beginning that u enjoyed doing this, and use adjectives to qualify this drawing-writing.
*I think is Reproducing instead of reproduing.
Ok I hope my comment can help ur text.