My best writing experience would have to be in my sophomore year of high school where I receieved a picture and had to write a poem to compliment it. I love more of the creating writing, not so much the long essays. The picture was of a lake in the winter time right at either sunset or sunrise. It gave the feeling of loneliness, so I wrote my poem about a man who goes to the lake reflecting on his wife's death. I could just picture him sitting there in the silence taking in his surroundings and trying to find the answers he was looking for, so I wrote the emotions that I thought he would be experiencing and the interior dialogue. What made the experience even better was that I won a prize in the school's art festival for it.
My worst writing experience also took place in the same english class my sophomore year. It was a research paper. My topic was how the Nazis manipulated the world with different types of propaganda during the years of the Holocaust. I worked very hard, researching all the different types of propaganda from various resources. My paper was very long, about twenty pages after editing. I received a B- on the paper because I paraphrased and quoted too much throughout the paper without enough analysis. I was very upset because I had put a lot of time and effort into the paper and I thought I was doing what the teacher had asked. It was definitely a learning experience. Next time I wont be as extensive and focus more on my analysis and not how many facts I can find. So I would say that this negative experience affected me most because I am going to learn from my mistakes.
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