is this a decent essay?





My bedroom. A place that is all my own, I share it with no one. The walls are plain, the carpet is plain, the closet doors, the window and bed are all plain. My handmade wood bed. Has held me ever since I was a child. Made by my “paw-paw”. My warm welcoming quilts made for me by my “maw-maw”.
The closet is full of clothes. Shirts of blues, pinks, and greens. Skirts and dresses for church. Jeans and t-shirts for my “lazy days” The top is filled with Cabbage patch dolls one of my few collections. The bottom filled with all the many odds and ends of my life.
A computer desk holds my school papers from years past. Books, my love. Not only does the desk hold the books its holds the door to many opportunities reading has in store. The wall behind the desk yet directly across from my bed is full of the wonderful world of twilight. Posters of the accident. Quotes and the many magazines in which twilight as an article or two.
The wall adjacent to that is lined with all my shoes. All thirty-six pairs. Blacks, whites, blues, browns, and pinks. Just to name a few of the colors of shoes I own. The line of shoes then leads to my bed. My bed is the most comfortable in the house. Its firm yet soft. Piles of pillows and mountains of quilts. All the items a bed needs.
Under this bed are “monsters” some bad memories of school years past. But yet somehow the memories of those years are some of my very best ones. I place the papers there to remind me that in my room I am the one that decides how things are going to be. That I am free to let go of everything. In my room I don’t have to hold in all my anger and frustrations. I can let of these feelings of madness and chagrin.
My room is my favorite place because it is all my own, I share it with no one. I make the rules and I hold the key to what happens there.
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i wrote this for school. Is this a desent paper? if not maybe some ideas or tips to make it better?

3 Responses to “is this a decent essay?”

  1. John said:

    It's not an essay, but it's a nice descriptive piece =]

  2. Anna Q said:

    It is quite a lovely peice of writing. Unfortunately, if this is meant to be an essay, it is not written at all in essay format. This is a poem. If you were allowed to chose what form to submit this (eg poem, short story, written speech etc) then this is great to submit. However, if it is an essay, then this probably will not get a passing grade unfortunately. There are no complete sentences in your work, which is wonderful for short stories and peoms, but not essays. Essays are formal peices of writing and unfortunately this is not.

    If you need an essay, (i am assuming your topic is your favourite place and why) you need an intro - my favourite place is my room because of blah blah blah….

    Then paragraphs going into depths of the blah blah blah, followed by a conclusion.

    By the way, this could also be a speech!

  3. musedrinkingmercury said:

    I agree–good descriptive piece. But what is the paper's purpose? What is the assignment? It sounds kind of like a spatial survey.

    I like how you used the metaphor of bad memories as monsters.

    There are some mechanical errors, though. Look through your paper and edit some more.

    Good luck!

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