my growth as a writer..

Throughout grades sixth through ninth, I believe that I have grown tremendously as a writer. When I read my writings from ninth grade, then read my writings from sixth grade, I think, " I was such a bad writer back then!" My writings were very plain and sometimes did not make much sense. My vocabulary was horrible. I used very plain words, and I used words over and over again.
Vocabulary has always been a struggle for me. In middle school, I would want to use big words to make my writing sound better, but I did not always know how to use them. When I did use them, I would use them the wrong way or they just wouldn't fit in with the sentence or paragraph that I was writing. There would be a bunch of plain little words then one big word right in the middle of the sentence! In one of my writings, I do not use great vocabulary until the very end of the writing. Throughout the writing I am using the same words over and over. At the end I decided to throw some big words in and I came up with: " Whenever you are scared and nervous just think of my story and hopefully you will overcome your fearfulness and nervousness."