My Writing Journey

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Writing has always been a natural ability of mine. Over the course of the past decade, a writing journey has taken me to where I am now; it has taken me to the start of an exceptional career that I wish to pursue. The career that I’m implying is sports journalism. Becoming a sports journalist has been a dream job for myself ever since I entered high school; however, my love of writing began years before now. From reading elementary sports novels by Matt Christopher and writing fictional sports stories as a kid, to eventually writing for the school newspaper this year, writing has been a momentous personal journey for me that has resulted in forming my career goal. In elementary school, I immediately became attached to reading fictional sports novels. By taking weekly trips to the school library, my love for reading about sports became an obsession. I couldn’t get enough of reading Matt Christopher and Mike Lupica books, as it seemed like every week, I was checking out a new one. The Kid who Only Hit Homers by Matt Christopher was a book that I read over and over, at least 150 times. …show more content…

When a game on television concluded, I would recreate live commentary and statistics based on that particular game. For example, I would watch an Atlanta Braves game on TV, and write about how Brian McCann hit a monster home run or how Tim Hudson threw a no-hitter, while exaggerating on events here and there in order to create an intense, yet entertaining story. Picturing the events and atmosphere of the game in my head assisted me in forming a better paper for my few readers, which consisted of my parents and my sister. Writing these fictional stories always put me in a positive mood; this is the main reason behind why I continued to want to

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