What I have learned about myself as a writer this year

I have grown as a writer this year and have learned details about my vocabulary and sentence fluency. I've learned that my vocabulary is mediocre and is rarely complicated or fancy. I do not see the point in fancy vocabulary because in my eyes, when somebody uses those kinds of words, they are trying to seem smart. When people use that type of vocabulary, it does not necessarily mean they are smart. I have begun to mature in my sentence fluency since last year, learning that I usually do not use proper sentence structure until I go back and edit my writing. I have also learned that to me, the most important part of writing is the editing process.

I have learned that writing does not take too much time for me, but I see others struggling with writing taking them too long. For some reason, putting my thoughts onto paper or into a Word document does not require much effort from me. I have learned that I make many grammatical mistakes in my first draft. I usually finish a paper thinking I have little to no grammatical errors but when I go back to read it, it turns out that there are many mistakes. I have grown to enjoy the rough draft stage of writing because I do not need to worry about editing during this stage.