Week9 11/10 How Was SE?

Fixed Topic: How Was SE? What Did I Learn during This Course?

I cannot believe the class -You: A Course of Personal Writing- was already over. The time up to today has passed quickly. As much as that, I could enjoy writing and loved this course. Of course, it was not always an enjoynable activity. As I mantion in the final class, I faced two difficulties in my writing process.

The one was the difficulty in creating someting completely by myself. The course required three publishing pieces. That's all. There was no fixed topic, theme, or genre. It was totally free writing! I had to start with almost nothing. It was the most difficult thing this time. To tell the truth, I wanted to try to write a novel or short story, but I could not extend my imagination any more.... I was really made to reflect on my lack of creativeness. I really want to know how to develop my crative ability....

The other is the difficulty in expressing someting in natural English. Especially in transration of a Japanese work, I had trouble in finding natural English words which fitted to Japanese expressions exactly. Japanese has many onomatopoeic words, but English has not so many. So even though I had what to communicate in Japanese, I couldn't tell all the meanings or just end up in unnatural expressions, as long as I used English. I really thought that I should have read more English sources as textbooks to learn how to express naturally. It was the most reflective thing in my writing.

This course was very challenging for me, but it gave me a good opportunity to reflect on myself. I have ever thought about what is love, what is my strengths and weeknesses, or someting like that. But there were just abstract ideas becasue I considered such things just in my mind. This time, by transcribing such my thoughts, I could make my abstract idas clearer and concrete ones, and I could notice how well I had thought about it or how superficially I had thought about it. Moreover, I realized I did love to write someting. That must have been a big incentive which enabled me to keep writing so far.

Finally, I would like to thank all my peers and Mark. They gave me some good advice and stimulating ideas. I haven't read all of their pieces and bloggings, so I wanna try to see all of them and learn a lot from others' pieces. I will keep the blog and continue to wtite as long as possible. I will be very glad if you read my blog and leave a comment. THANK YOU ALL!