Personal Narrative: My Autobiography Of A Writer

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When I first started writing the composition at seven years old, I need to look at the picture and narrate what happened around that. At that time, I racked my brain to figure out the imagination and come out only a few words. Later, we need to write a narrative under the education standard system, I still came up against difficulties and didn't know what to write. "You should record the something different happened every day in your diary, which is a basic practice for you to begin your writing step by step.", this is the sentence I repeatedly heard from my teachers during the primary school period. After all, the life is always being ordinary and nothing special happened, it difficult for me to have more interesting topics to share with others. In order to solve this situation, I went to the bookstore to buy some composition books because of the teacher's suggestion. …show more content…

I memorized those useful sentences, studied the author's writing methods and carried on the imitation writing. In addition, I used various approaches such as idioms to improve the contents in order to attract people to have more interests. In this case, the imitation is always not progress, but also the innovation should have my own characteristics. Along the same lines, the growth of vocabulary also plays an increasingly important role in my daily writing. As a result, my word choices used in the writing process are developed by reading books over a period of time. As for me, the writing seemed like just a kind of task under the exam-oriented education when I was in elementary

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