Dear Reader,

Having been asked to write a personal essay for this class, I found myself struggling to start off with the right one that will come through my pen easily while writing. There are so many events in my life i want to write about and I want to make sure after all these years I am still able to capture my old memories with same amount of emotions that it associated with. As a result, it took me a while to choose the right one from all; the right one that could challenge me, my writing ability.

Zinsser’s one advice that I find very encouraging is ” Writing well means believing in your writing and believing in yourself, taking risks, daring to be different, pushing yourself to excel” (p 302). I tried to write confidently, wanted to bring out the time as it was with write words. However, when I realized a team of great writers, definitely you guys are superb at writing nonfiction, is going to read my writing , my all confidence disappeared right away.

Nevertheless, I wrote, wrote about my feelings about rain and the rainy season. It was kind of challenging to me because basically I am writing only based on my emotions regarding rain, not a person. I don’t know how I did, I always feel like ”oh I could have written this sentence better or this line doesn’t exactly sound like the way I want it to sound etc.” There is always something to add, something to modify. I finally hatched  my first draft. Forgive me if I let you down.

Sincerely,

amzad hossain