Personal Narrative: The Amazing Days Of Abbey Hayes

Literary Autobiography
My mother always makes sure to remind me that when I was a child, she made me become a reader. Every night, she would read a book to sister and I. We were always encouraged to read reminded of how important it was to be literate. At that age, I thought that being 'literate' was just being able to read and spell your name. Later on, I discovered that literacy is so much more complex and interesting. At the age of 10, I discovered a book series titles "The Amazing Days of Abbey Hayes." The stories were written to make it seem like a young girl was documenting her every day life in a diary.Of course, being a kid, I was under the impression that the books were actually written by a girl my age and I was amazed at how smart

and witty this girl was. I feel like this book series was what first inspired me to start writing. I started a journal in hopes that I could write as well as Abbey. Everything that happened to me was written in my journal, even the boring, uninsteresting events like eating a ham sandwich. As embarrassing as those entries were, I always had so much fun writing them.
Although I enjoyed writing in my journal, I felt as though my life wasn't interesting enough so I decided that writing my own stories would be a better way to spend time. Most of my "stories" were rip offs of popular fairy tales but I thought that I was such a genious and was going to grow up and become an author.
School, I feel, forced me develope my writing skills. It started off with monthly autobiographies in Grade 5 and later evolved into book reports and essays. I was that student that procrastinated until the very last minute but when the day before my writing assignments were due, I actually enjoyed doing it and ended up very pleased with my work.