How To Write Like Raquel Jaramillo

Dear Mrs. Oshida,

My name is Isabella DeCarlo and I am in your 8th period English class. English has always been the class I am most excited for because I have always hoped that someday I would learn to enjoy writing so that I would be able to write like Raquel Jaramillo, who wrote “Wonder”. The idea of writing is brilliant, authors are able to create fantastic world’s and distinct characters. However, The idea of writing and actually writing are very different. I shut down so many ideas that none can ever reach my paper because I always feel that my ideas arent good enough. In the past I sat in front of à computer screen or blank piece of paper waiting for many minutes for an idea that was less laughable than the last.

Some years back,

I was given à research project in science where I was told to write à five paragraph essay. Though I did well on the assignment, writing the essay took eight hours and this discouraged me. Every writing assignment since sixth grade has been à huge struggle for me and I have become more and more frustrated with my writing abilities. My goal for this year is to be more confident with my writing and be able to write with à bit more ease. I genuinely wish I could tell you, Mrs. Oshida, that I love writing as much as I am passionate about reading, but it simply wouldn’t be true. What I can tell you is that I want to improve desperately, and will work hard to do so.

One of my favorite things to do is to read, and it has always been this way. From the day I learned to read, I would walk around with my nose in my book, only paying attention to the wonderful words on the page. I read anything from dystopian novels to fictions based on real life circumstances. But out of the thousands of books i’ve read, Only “Wonder” stands out to me. The main character, Auggie Pullman was born with mandibulofacial dysostosis and far from “normal”

The biggest reason why I want to improve in my writing is so that I can tell my own story through my writing and through the complex characters I create. My favorite types of books are fictions based on real life circumstances and dystopian novels.