the point of this blog being...

What it is to Play on Words


Kind of a funny name to start a blog off, I'll admit it. Or maybe it's my wording that's funny. English teachers have given me grief since the playground days because my grammar isn't always technically "correct" and my writing can be a little wordy. But it's the way I love to express my words, so I find ways to turn my weird writing into a grammatically correct piece of prose- like with wordplay. For example, the day I found out about anastrophe was almost life-changing. If you think you have no idea what that is, you do; it's the way Yoda talks in Star Wars, with his words said in an order unconventional, hmm yes? (It's a lot funnier if you read that in a Grover voice, by the way.)


So this blog isn't technically about literary devices, although thanks to how fun they are they'll get used frequently. It's more that writing has always been a passion of mine and the field I want to pursue a career in someday. I hate to do this, but to tell the story right I have to go back to my high school days and to the beginning:
All through high school I was one of the better writers among my peers and loved being the best at rhetoric and analysis in my English classes. I did so well on the A.P. tests that I could have jumped straight into a full-on assault on the writing world here at BYU. But the fact is, my entire freshman year at college I took no English classes- I had no need to, I'd tested out of them. It's one of the biggest mistakes, academically speaking, I've ever made. I struggled writing papers on a collegiate level for all my classes freshman year since I'd never written much more than English class rhetorical analysis papers, and high school ones at that. 


Now my sophomore year it's humbling to go back and take a Freshman writing course, and realize how much I have forgotten of what I had learned. Things I thought I knew I'm now re-learning, to find that maybe I didn't know them as well as I thought I did.


The Epic Conclusion of this very long blog post that has been rather long in coming: this blog may be an assignment for class, but it's also and maybe more importantly one of the ways I'm getting back into writing. It's truly like an online journal in that I have to write consistently (or at least should be.) And there's one of the biggest problems I have come to realize: I have simply gotten out of the habit of writing consistently. I'll try to get back into writing, see if it's still something I love, and if so ...
                                             Well, I guess this blog will explore that too.