Affective Dimensions of Writing

I don’t necessarily consider myself to be a writer but I do think I am good with expressing myself through writing and communicating my feelings. I would prefer to express myself through speaking but sometimes the only way I feel that I can express my ideas is through writing it. I never really wrote recreationally as a child. I started a journal when I was in elementary but I didn’t really keep it up very well. Now I like to text and put updates on Facebook. But in the last year I have noticed that I text and Facebook less than before. I would much rather text someone than talk to them on the phone though. I hate talking on the phone. I email as well but only when that is the only way to communicate with someone. When I was in school I loved to be able to write without any prompts. For example, when we were assigned to write about our weekend or our summer, I would be so excited. The writing assignment I wasn’t so fond of was the ones where we were prompted to write about something that I wasn’t interested in. I would feel like it was pointless and a waste of time. If I ever have students write anything, I will have options that they will be able to choose from so they will be able to write about something they are interested in. For example, how eggs affect a product’s outcome or another choice would be how oil affects the product.