When I have written narratives in my past school experiences they have made me feel empowered. I got to tell my story, the way I wanted to, got to voice my opinions and say what I wanted to without anyone getting in the way. I felt as though I had complete control over my writing. When being told to tell a story I really enjoyed the fact that there was not a prompt or specific question that I had to answer to in my writing. I am one to usually get carried away with my writing as you can see in reading all of my blog posts, once I start to get my thoughts out I can't stop! I think narrative writing is definitely my favorite writing style.
I am not the type of person to emotionally open up, but when it comes to my writing I tend to open up more then usual. I am usually a very emotional writer, not angry or sad; I just write what comes to my mind no matter what mood I am in its usually just monotone and emotional. In my third blog post, I wrote a letter to my author self where you can see some of my monotone emotion come into play while trying to find my internal writer. In my 5th blog post I created an Emotional scene with dialog and symbolism. I wrote about my experience at a party one night at WVU where I was sexually assaulted by a man I thought was my friend, while I should have been more angry telling this story I just simply was not due to the fact that I am not much of an angry person in general. It really opened my eyes to all of the things I have encountered in my life. My final blog post was me telling myself a different story from my emotional scene. It showed how I would have preferred the outcome of my night and the decisions I could have made to make a change to the situation I encountered. It really made me come to reality and think about the choices I could have made instead. I feel as though all my writing comes from the heart and when I write I just speak my mine with whatever emotion I feel at that time.