Alyssa

I find myself following in the literary footsteps of my beloved sister, Alyssa. Her pure love for reading and her stretched imagination has intrigued me ever since I was younger. She always had her nose in a book, and being her little brother I tried to emulate her thirst for words. My sister is my role model, in my everyday life, but I also have to look up to her when it comes to reading and writing. She is able to manipulate words to conform a complete and truly beautiful thought. Alyssa has impacted my literacy and language development through her passion for reading and her ever-growing imagination, which has lead to the way I read, write, and converse in everyday life.

My sister loves to read write even now that she is in college. Alyssa is a Television, Film & Media Studies major at California State University Los Angeles, and I have seen the scrip’s she has developed. I have seen how imaginative she is when she puts a production together. She has told me that the reason she is so creative is because she has dabbled in many different worlds. For instance, she has grown up in Hogwarts, she was a foster kid with the Klaus, Violet and Sunny, and she has fought in the hunger games, and tried to find the lighting bolt before the summer solstice. My sister has submerged herself in so many different worlds and I see the look in her eye when she reads about these adventures, which make me want to read about these same worlds.

I get my reading interest from my sister, when she was done with a book I would pick it up so that I can encounter those same experiences, and because I did so I realized every book is similar and different at the same time. Each author had a unique style, but each story would tell of another tale. For exam...

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...ty does get in the way of, but overall it has shaped me as a writer.

Alyssa has shown me that by opening a book you are able to apply any story to life and if you are able to do that you are able to write about anything because there are so many ways of talking about life. You need an imagination to write, you have to be creative when you write, and by reading how others have developed there ideas you are able to develop you own. And that idea of development has helped me develop conversations that are seen to be irrelevant but are perfectly connected because of the tools (writing and books) my sister has shared with me.

All in all, my writing has been directed by the thought of my sister and how much I want to live those same experienced while writing or reading. I have infused creative writing and academic writing which has helped me evolve in my everyday life.