Saturday, September 14, 2013

Lee Seung Hwan / Exercise 2 on page 11 / Tue 1 p.m class

I think as they attend universities, many people write way more than they used to. I don't know if this phenomenon is only for Korea, but as a Korean, the density of writing experience is concentrated to those times I spent in the university. When I was a high school student, I did not have many opportunities to write, because the education hardly focused on teaching writing skills. The school just wanted me to acquire skills of choosing a right answer from already-given choices. Therefore, when I started writing a lot as I became an university student, honestly, I struggled a lot. To me, writing was actually like creating something from nothing. As I have continued writing, I struggle a bit less nowadays, but I'm still struggling.


However, It was not like that I hated writing. Even though I struggled, I usually liked to write. Especially when it comes to writing for my own pleasure, writing became my best friend. For example, I sometimes write some lyrics for my hobby. Actually writing lyrics or poems are very tricky even though I write those in my native language. As I write lyrics, I have to consider rhymes, rhythms, and most importantly, word choices. I had to find will-refined, eye-catching, attractive, simple words for my writing. Sometimes I failed to find proper words. Sometimes I succeeded, and that made me really happy. To sum it up,, no matter of the trickiness of the writing I'm working with, if it was for my own pleasure, I enjoyed that writing.


Unfortunately, many writings I had to deal with like assignments were not for only my own pleasure. Sometimes I had to write with topics I was not really interested in. Occasionally, there were some professors who enforced his or her own personal thoughts to students. For example, I once took a politic lecture when I was a freshman. The professor was extremely biased with his political opinion, and the writing assignment he gave to me was writing about his favorite politician. In that case, I could not blame that politician in my writing even though I actually want to, because it was so obvious that would affect my score. Unfortunately, I didn't like that politician who I had to praise in my assignment. That writing was exactly against my own pleasure, so that became the worst experience of writing.


I think my previous writing experience is quite shallow yet. I just have not written enough. As I write more and more, I would get skills and maybe, my thoughts about writing will change in much positive way. I wish I can get more acquainted with it so that I can think every moment of writing is meaningful.

2 comments:

  1. Hi, Seunghwan.

    I have similar experience with a professor who has a political bias. I had to write something wrong. I want to forget this annoying memory.

    And I want to listen to your lyrics someday.

    Bye,
    Wonpil Lee

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  2. The forced writing experience must have been unbearable to you. But you seem to have some other cure of your own writing methods with lyrics or poems!

    Hyeonbae Park

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