My Writing Class

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I remember I used to love writing every day. For example, I would get straight fours when we had to do essays in benchmarks/STAARS. In fact, I would write stories and poems whenever I could throughout the day, but that all changed when one of my seventh-grade teachers told me I sucked at writing. I don’t know if she was in a bad mood that day or if she meant it; either way, I took it to heart and that lowered my esteem towards writing. Eventually, I stopped writing every day and my notebook would just be sitting there inside my drawer. As a result, I disliked writing and eventually forgot about my notebook and about me enjoying writing.
Once I stopped writing, I was starting to get bad at writing for school essays, but I stopped trying because I didn’t really care anymore at that time. The reason to that was because I would still picture the teacher telling me how bad I was with writing. Every time I would write a school essay, I would always tell myself that even if I tried, I was going to fail either way, so I didn’t put an effort to my work. Ever since then I went down hill with my grades for the English subject, but I didn’t really think much about it. When my …show more content…

After, she told more of our friends to read them and when they told me they loved them, it boosted my confidence in writing once more. As a result, I wrote more than I did before, and little by little I started writing better essays and my teacher was very surprised. She then asked me what happened and when I showed her my poems she said she was very proud of me. Until this day I write poems whenever I have the time and I am very proud of them; of course some of the poems need a little rewriting but I am still glad I started writing again because it feels like a part of me is

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