my informal writing from throughout this semester have definitely impacted my formal writings. Doing the free writes helped me become more open-minded and creative when it comes to writing. Before this semester, I always struggled getting ideas out on paper, doing the quick writes forced me to put every idea on paper. By writing everything that I though of out on paper, I could easily go back and look at what could benefit the writing and what was unimportant. I noticed slight improvement to my bigger essays after we began doing the free writes in class.