Writing paper 1 was interesting for me. I'd never really written anything so deep about myself before, and it allowed me to look inside to see who I really was, who I really had been, why I became who I am today.

Overall, writing the paper was relatively easy since I was just writing about myself; it came naturally. Of course, the first two drafts needed work, but by the third draft, I knew I had something really solid.

Some challenging aspects of the paper were choosing what was important enough to put in and \what was unimportant enought to leave out. However, a vast majority of what I wanted to put into my paper made it into the final cut.

From writing this paper, I learned how to dig through my paper to find more intriguing introductory lines, and I learned that 5 word paragraphs are totally okay to use now that there are no more FCAT graders. Next time I write a semi-narrative piece, I plan to use these strategies more freely and comfortably, and thus more effectively.