{"id":12530,"date":"2022-11-02T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/?p=12530"},"modified":"2024-06-20T13:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T17:58:03","slug":"writing-from-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/writing-from-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing from Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by Jeanne Polochansky, Digital Content Writer, Psychology Specialist <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite how daunting writing may seem, everyone has the skills to do it well. Jeanne shares how she overcomes her anxiety about the writing process through a set routine of reflecting, selecting, and revising. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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I’ve loved to write since I was very little; words helped me speak what was on my mind better than anything else did. Still, the term \u201cgood writer\u201d sounded scary and unattainable to me, imagination running wild with photos of bestselling books and high-and-mighty authors. Some of that fear returned once I became a student at U of T, where I felt intimidated to have my work meet demanding academic standards. Along the way, I learned that not all writing has to look a certain way. It doesn\u2019t exist only in stressful contexts \u2013 anyone can write a thoughtful piece of text. All it takes is one vivid experience, careful consideration, and some revising.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting from Within <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Writing follows me everywhere \u2013 it\u2019s part of my personal life, my classes, my extracurriculars, and every job I\u2019ve held. To deal with the flux of writing styles and multiple roles I take, I use introspection whenever I don’t know what to write. This frequent self-reflection has never failed me, and it\u2019s how I came up with my first post for the Innovation Hub, Working with Wellbeing in Mind<\/em><\/a>. Although I didn’t have much external material and prompts to work with, I could pull from my daily experiences, and then look at how the iHub supports them. When I write, I like to think of questions like these: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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