NickRayReflectionMemoir

I just finished the final copy of my paper a few days ago. The reason I wrote about the topic that I did was because it was something that was very significant to me. When we were first assigned this I thought to myself that 1000 words about a prior event in our life seemed pretty lengthy, plus it did not help that I had nothing to write about. But after giving it a lot of thought and bouncing about ten thousand ideas off my roommate and my friends I landed on the event of me getting arrested. As I began to brainstorm and outline my paper, it was a little difficult for me to remember a lot of the specific events of that night, since had happened two years ago.

When I started to begin writing my zero draft, all of a sudden the events of that night just flooded into my brain and I could see everything like I was back in my apartment that night. The paper became much easier to me with the recollection of what had happened that night and as I remembered everything it became more evident why I was writing about this certain event. I had forgotten of how interesting that story and night really was, so I really felt that other people should hear about my crazy night of getting arrested. While writing I really tried to make people feel that they were right there in the room when the cops showed up, and with us when were sitting on the lawn while in handcuffs. I think that while writing this memoir it really helped me as writer and putting me in the right direction to be the writer that I know I'm capable of being.

After reviewing and revising my memoir I feel as I did a pretty good job setting up the story and building it up to the climax. I feel that the way I did my outline and my zero draft really helped me bring the story together. I feel that I did a good job keeping the story in the past tense, story telling aspect throughout the entire paper. There are a few things that I think I could have done a little better and hope to get better at. For example, I feel that describing some parts of the story were not as strong as others and that is something that I definitely need to work on.