My Writing Experience

928 Words2 Pages

Every child grows up in school learning the basics such as the alphabet and reading simple books like Dick and Jane. As children grow older, they either come to love or hate reading as a hobby. There is really no in between. I was fortunate enough to have parents who encouraged me to read and write outside of the classroom which cultivated into a love for reading and later in my life writing. My early reading and writing experiences have helped shape me as the person I am today. When I was young, my parents would read bedtime stories to me and my sister at least once a week. Whether it was a Mother Goose story or one of Aesop’s fables, every story captivated my mind. I was amazed at how words on a page with accompanying pictures could tell …show more content…

I wanted to be able to do the same thing that J.K. Rowling and Rick Riordan did. I want to create my own fictional world that people could enjoy and become immersed in. It was at this time in the 7th grade that I joined my school’s creative writing club. I loved going to the meetings because it allowed me to share my writing and receive feedback as well as hear other people’s work and get a small glimpse into how their brain worked. As time passed, I evolved from writing short one page stories to five or ten page stories and then into short novels and intricate poems. In my pieces of more advanced writing I saw other authors that I had read creep into my work such as Rowling’s love for fantasy and Riordan’s sense of humor. I believe that through this writing process I learned more about myself as an individual and my life story as they became part of my pieces of writing. I enjoyed creative writing so much that I along with a few other friends created a writing club at my high school. As I grew as a writer, I also began to read books in a different light as see how and why an author would use one technique over another. Writing has only invigorated my love for reading even more in hopes of me becoming a better writer myself. My literacy as of now has become more academic based than it has in the past. Five years ago someone would see me walking around with a Harry Potter book but now they would see me reading an article pertaining to DNA and its application in the criminal justice system. I have also seen my love for biology sneak into my writing now that I am working towards a biology degree than I did in high

Open Document