Now for the most recently created addition to my portfolio: the book review. Regrettably, there isn’t much in the way of a backstory for this one. I wrote this for an assignment in a critical writing class my senior year. We were all assigned to read this book, “All the Broken Girls,” which was unreleased at the time, and write a review for it. Three of these reviews were eventually published in Grady Newsource, and mine was one of them, which makes this the first piece I’ve ever had published.
But I think there is more to this review than it simply being my first published piece of writing. As I mentioned before, I started college unsure of how to create an effective narrative. By this point in my writing career, I felt as though I had a much better grasp on story as a craft, and I believe that my growth in this area is shown here in my analysis and critique of another writer’s story. Thus I felt justified in having this be the final piece of my portfolio…