First Post: Strengths, Weaknesses and Goals

As a writer, when not writing for assignments and such, I write fictional prose – usually science fiction. World building is an essential part of science fiction, even though it is often based on the real world, and requires a sense of imagination.

I would personally say that that is one of my strengths in writing; a sense of imagination. Of course, since this is a general writing skills course, you would not want me to rant on about fictional prose, so I will cut that short.

Another one of my strengths is my vocabulary. Although it might be less impressive here in the UK than it was back in Norway, I would still argue that I can dish up some quite magnificent words every now and again to make what I mean clear.

My biggest weakness would probably be that I take forever to start writing. Once I have started, I can keep writing at an alright pace, but finding somewhere to start is very challenging.

My punctuation can also be a little cluttered, and I place commas and semicolons everywhere.

In addition, I tend to use too many words, and end up with sentences longer than optimal, resulting in me having to crop my text if is an assignment with a word limit.

My goals for this course is to improve my general writing skills in order to be both more concise and precise, and hopefully to be able to start writing quicker!