Inspiring Youth: The Prairie Meadows Scholarship

Inspiring Youth

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing” said by Benjamin Franklin. I began writing the moment I discovered pencils and notebooks. I would spend my days writing whether I was at school, home, watching a sporting event, or riding in a car. Writing would take me away from the real world to my own fantasy world. The Prairie Meadows scholarship would help me inspire people to create different worlds through writing.

When I was younger I would write stories that had no plot towards them, contained random transitions between chapters, many spelling errors, and crazy punctuations. My stories may have contained multiple errors, but something they did contain was creativity. I remember sitting at my desk

with a pencil and notebook just writing chapter after chapter either about a pair of haunted pajama pants or a thrilling mystery between a group of high school students. As I would write, I would transport myself to another world and imagine the various scenarios happening in that world. I would let all my creativity spill through the tip of the pencil and onto the pages of the notebook. Every thought, image, word, or feature would be written exactly the way I imagined it. I wrote so many stories with some never having endings, some just starting, and others just an idea. Writing was my escape from reality and I want to inspire others to find an escape through writing as well.
As I get older my writings expand further through different styles such as poems and short stories. Writing is my passion and a passion is something a person could never give up. I will continue writing regardless if I end up sharing my works with the world. People are able to explore different worlds through writing and with this scholarship I would be able to inspire them to do so. Writing lets people create their own worlds, imagine the impossible, and venture through the works of their mind.