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MY LIFE AS A WRITER!!!

Writing has been a part of my life since as long as I can remember and I have come along way since the beginning. When I was little I loved to write cards to my friends and family members. I have also had to write many reports and other things for school along the way. When I was 5 or 6 I got my first art desk. I loved sitting there and writing anything and almost everything. I would write my name like a million times just because I thought it was so cool. I also liked to write stories about different things like my dog and even my stuffed animals and dolls, sometimes even my friends at school. I always thought my stories were the best even though you usually couldn't tell what it said because it was too confusing. It was one of those things where only I understood what I really meant. I was too cockeye of a kid to listen to what anyone had to say because in my mind, I was the absolute best and no one could change what I wrote.

Even though I liked to write for myself, I also had to write in school. In second grade we were asked to write a summary of a book, which at this point I have no clue what it was about. I really didn't know what I was doing but trusted my skills as a writer to try my best and summarize the events in the book. When everything was said and done, we read our summaries aloud to the class one by one. Everyone's kind of sucked but my teacher commented that my summary was what she was looking for. She said I used the right amount of detail and included the right amount of information. I remember this the most because that is really the day I first learned how to write a good summary.

Last year I also had a big event for me as a writer. When we went to Outdoor Ed. we were asked to bring a journal and record our thoughts, feelings, and anything else that occurred each day. We did this every night we were there. At first I thought I was going to have a difficult time doing this because I didn't really like keeping journals or writing about myself. After this experience I actually learned it could sometimes be fun to write about yourself and keep a diary or journal. It really helped me because some things mad me really mad and then I didn't have to keep them all to myself.