Misti's+memoir+reflection

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 * [[Misti's memoir reflection|When we were told that we had to write a memoir about an event that took place sometime in our live it did not take me long to figure out what to write about. I knew that I wanted to write about what happened between me and Briston that day he hit me with the baseball bat. There were a few reasons that I wanted to write about this particular event. For one, it was an event that had such a huge impact on my life that I wanted to write about it and maybe share with others how I grew from that experience. I also knew that at times I still think about Briston and our relationship and that day. Writing about it all helps me see that I am ok now and that my life is much better now. However, I did not know at first that we may have to present it to the class. When we were told in class that we may have to shard it in class I started to get nervous. While I do want my fellow classmates to get to know me as a person better I do not want people to judge me or feel sorry for me based on this event. I want people to like me and want to be my friend because of the type of person that I am not because they feel sorry for me. I also was not sure if I would be able to emotionally talk about the event. While I am over what happened and have moved on it is still a sore subject to talk about. I did not know if I could look out into the room to see all my classmates staring at me as I read this event and be strong throughout my reading of the memoir. I began to second guess my choice to write about the event. So I came up with two other alternatives to write about. I was either going to write about my mission trip to Anchorage, Alaska back in 2004 or my experience as a freshman in college at our first football game of the season. We had to come into class and present our ideas to our group members. So that is what I decided to do. I told all three ideas to my group members. They were both interested and supportive about me writing about the experience in the situation with Briston. So I began to think. Why not write about this? If anything maybe it will help others deal with difficult situations in their lives. Once I decided for sure that I was going to write about that I just sat down at my computer and started to write. I just let everything flow out of me. Everything that came to my mind I just typed on my computer. After I was done with that writing part I went through and read what I had wrote. I tried to add details where I could. I read through it and corrected things that needed to be corrected. Then after I read that I thought about an introduction and conclusion. I had the body of the memoir done now I had to come up with my intro and conclusion. After I thought of my introduction and conclusion I focused on my body and organizing the contents I had written. I moved things around and made different paragraphs. After I was done I printed that out. The next day we came to class and had to get comments and things about our rough draft. When I got my paper back i took the comments made by my]] professor and group members and read each comment careful. I then made changes to my memoir where changes needed to be made. Looking back I know that I wrote a lot. My memoir was long but I believe I did a great job and everything in the paper was necessary to put in. I wanted my readers to know how I felt and to almost feel as if they were there. I wanted them to be able to paint a picture of what happened. I was great detail to help them visualize the event. I feel as if my introduction was a good way to get my readers interested in the memoir that they were about to read and the way I ended the memoir did not leave my readers curious as to what the end was. I could have very well just explained to my readers what happened up to him hitting me but i felt as if I needed to go into details about what happened to me and him after all this happened but I like that I went into more details about what happened afterward and used that as a way to kind of help my readers deal with any situation that they may be faced with. Overall I really enjoyed my memoir and I think that I did a good job on it.**