Process+Writing

Process Writing  I wrote my memoir about a case when I steal my mother’s friend’s daughter’s doll. At first there are various topics that I chose to write about. ‘Dangerous situations which happened when I was in Korea’, ‘My first trip to America’, ‘My big lie which brought my mother’s sadness’ and etc. But I couldn’t choice anything between these topics. Because I thought these topics don’t have many things to say. So, at first I wrote several lines about all of these topics, and in the class one of my classmates, Ericka, saw these stories and advised me that write about this robbery topic would be good. She said if I express my emotion and the situation at that time well it would have many things to say. Her advice was really helpful. I totally agreed with that advice. And I could start easily. I wrote about the case which was happened when I was 7 years old so it is really hard to remember that day’s exact situation. But that case was important to me so I could remember that day’s emotion well. As I’m not a native English speaker it took a lot of time to write this memoir. I had lots of things which I want to talk about but my vocabulary was really weak. So I visited writing center several times. They corrected grammatical errors and helped me kindly. But whenever I went there I had different advisor so it was quite confusing. They always advised differently. My purpose on my writing was making vivid expression. I wanted to make my reader feel as they were in that situation. But it was really hard. I began draft right after I finished my memoir. I got many help from classmates, advisor in writing center and friends. It was really helpful because I could get many different ideas.