To me, “letter writing” means taking the time out of your day to write a message to someone. However, participating in “epistolary practices” refers to participating in an almost lost form of art.
For this course, I am excited to learn about how people communicated before there was technology, and their varied methods of doing so. In addition, I am hoping we spend at least one class period learning about the cryptic language of flowers within writing letters. I have only discovered it fairly recently, and I would love to know more about it.
One of my primary concerns is how many papers I have written, when compared to other students here. I only started writing proficient papers in highschool, having only written 3 “summary papers” in middle school.
My Writing Process
I like how I have a system to indicate words that I am uncertain about. For a word that I am unsure about, I tend to bold that particular word. I do this as a way to write a note to myself that I need to come back and change that particular word.
Something my writing process lacks is being free from incomplete sentences. When I am starting an assignment, I tend to jot everything down and try to form a cohesive paragraph (emphasis on “try to”). In addition to this, a majority of my thoughts end up having both incomplete sentences and lots of preposition phrases.
As a writer, I want to see growth as well as an update to my initial writing process that I like to describe as “organized chaos.” Preferably, I would like to be more “organized” than “chaos.”
