So today I'm going to say a bit more about me and writing. The longest paper I ever wrote was for my English 102 class at BSU. The assignment for out final was supposed to be 8-10 pages and I barely popped out 6. I felt like I had really accomplished something since it nearly doubled my previous record. I am just not one to fill a page with filler although I try to work on it. I tend to be concise and to the point. One to three sentences on any idea can be plenty to me and then the teacher says to be more specific.
This is why writing poetry became my preferred writing style. I could choose the length and just how I wanted to say something without worrying about what it meant to someone else. Let them interpret it the way they want. I began writing poetry my junior year of high school. It had become my outlet from a mild depression I was experiencing at the time. I couldn't tell you why I felt depressed I just knew I didn't feel very happy at the time and through writing I just found myself happy again one day and haven't had a problem ever since. Looking back most of what I wrote was pretty juvenile and maybe didn't even make much sense but it expressed me at the time. I entered one poem into a contest online where it made it to the semi-finals. How impressive that really is I may never know. I was supposed to fly out to Florida to read it at some convention where I could pass into other rounds of judging but I never went.
The sad thing about my writing is that it became progressively difficult to be able to write when I went on my mission. I could pour my heart into writing anything I learned about the gospel but poetry became nearly impossible to write. Even now I just can't seem to do it though I thought it was a great part of who I am. Perhaps I do need to be able to express myself in a more expanded way now, to go ahead and just lay my mind out on a page that's not full of rhymes and clever phrasing.