Literacy Writing Reflective Post

My progress in writing my literacy narrative had many twists and turns.  The hardest part of the process was, the beginning.  I really struggled with how to start.  I didn't know what to write about. I had many  ideas on what to focus on but was not able to be fully convince on which one to pick.  In writing my literacy narrative I thought hard on what major events that occurred in my past that has really had a profound effect on my present writing.  In choosing my topic, I had followed a couple of processes.  One of the tools that really helped me to choose my topic was an in-class assignment.  In the assignment we were given multiple post cards and given certain questions to answer.  The questions given helped give me a boost on how to start (as far as figuring what topic(s) to write about).

After I chose my topic I came across another stumbling stone.  Once agin I didn't know how to start.  I tried many methods on how to start but it just didn't flow well.  After this the impending departure of me and the narrative was eminent.  I had given up on it for a few days....

until one day, I started to watch videos on improving writing.  It was pretty long but the "end message" of the film was "get all of your ideas on paper and don't worry if it sounds incoherent just get all the thoughts out.  Than later on the revision and editing you can start molding it into the master piece".  So when I started writing again I tried this method  (I forgot to post this piece in the Doc....Ill try to once I find it).  To my surprise their were lots of details, so many that I could easily write the narrative, but with so many parts I didn't know what to exclude.  Eventually I narrowed things down to the most significant details that I could readily expand on.  After actually starting the narrative, everything (mostly everything) just flowed out smoothly  and I barley had a time where I was stuck.  At the end, the time I had wrap it all up was when I started struggling again (I'm still a little stuck on how to end the narrative).  After trying multiple times I gave up on it and started to revise the narrative.  One assignment that really helped in the revising process was the "comment yourself" method.  Basically I read over the narrative and started on any places that flowed awkward or was hard to understand.  After doing a little revision I started editing things by; inserting commas, exchanging words (to help make it sound better), and switching some sentences.

process of writing this assignment, overall, was like walking along a  path facing many road blocks /dead ends and seeing many roads.  Although there were many roads I had to choose the ones that yielded the most ideas and narrow it down to the ones that I could easily travel through.