Journal # 1

Journal # 1

"Write what you know" The first rule of writing is to "Write What You Know." What do you know? What are the experiences, settings, topics, issues, genres, themes and characters that you feel you can comfortably write about? What are the experiences, settings, topics, issues, genres, themes and characters that you are interested in enough to research in order to write about them more effectively? What are your limitations? In other words, what topics do you feel unknowledgeable about and think you should avoid?


If the first rule in writing is to write what you know, I might not be the best writer in the world. Yes there are a fair amount of things that I know but it is not always the kind of things that anyone else really cares that much about. I have found that while talking to others, they tend to shut me out until I stop talking because to them what I am saying does not make a difference here nor there. The things I can talk or write about for ever vary, because there are so many things that interest me, and just not a lot of others.


One thing would be cheerleading, it sounds really cliché that a high school girl would want to talk about it, but it is my life while I am here. I think about practice, stunts and my team sometimes more than I think about school at all. Cheerleading is an addiction to some people, and I can admit that I am definitely one that is addicted to it. When I am at school, in a class that I find is boring or during student presentations that are bland I write about what I would like to accomplish at my next practice and what I would like my team to accomplish. I am the Flyer captain, so I research different ways to stretch for our flyers, and different things that they could pull in the air that would look pretty and suit them, and I always think of new stuff for the group competition that I have entered myself and 4 others in this year.


Another thing that I could talk about for ever is anything to do with psychology or sociology. I have taken every sociology course this school has to offer, and even tried to go to Westlane as a magnet student for psychology. when I go through university I will be taking psychology, and I know that ill do very well. The one teacher I had at this school has taught me more than I ever thought I would learn, it is crazy the amount of things that I know. Almost everyday something in my life will have to do with what I have learned, and it really helps shape the person I am today just by recalling my memories of class.



I feel comfortable writing about pretty much anything as long as I have enough knowledge on it. Also if it is something I find interesting I will take the time to research tons, in order to feel comfortable writing about it. I have done things like that on Abortion, Genetic Engineering, and Marijuana in some of my other classes for projects before. so as long as I find something that is really interesting I will be very happy to research and talk about it. There are some topics that I feel I should really not be writing about, religion being one of them. I am the kind of person who is not really sure what they believe, and I can tend to get very mean when people push religion, or even talk about it in a way that I believe they are pushing it. so I tend to try and stay completely away from it all the time.