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Creative writing is a difficult process, often prone to failure. Upon hearing my frequent complaints regarding the activity, my friends often ask me why I bother with the business at all. There are several reasons why I write. However, to say that there is any one specific explanation would be incorrect and would oversimplify the subject.
From an early age, I was gifted with a strong imagination. A daydreamer by nature, I ‘played pretend’ industriously throughout my childhood. I wrote my first story when I was eight years old, or perhaps a little older. The quality was, of course, horrendous. Flat plots and flatter characters reigned tyrant over my writing. My prose was purple in the extreme. Luckily, I was unaware of any of this at the time and continued to write voraciously. No great improvement was made until I was in the fifth grade and even then the plot of my six-page story was a plagiarism of Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle. Sixth grade saw me retire from writing: the transfer to middle school and a worsening problem with bullies sapped me of my motivation. This period did not last long. I was back in business by the next year and, …show more content…

In many ways, I consider it to be one of the most difficult professions in the world. The primary difficulty is the dreaded beast known as writer’s block. This lack of motivation can spell death for a literary project. Overcoming this challenge is still something with which I struggle. My schedule also tends to be a hindrance. It is rare that I have time to sit down and write anymore. For instance, I don’t participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) because it takes place during the beginning of the school year. Homework must take precedence over what is, at this stage, a hobby. Furthermore, I must battle every day the fear that I am not talented enough to be published. Being without confidence in this career is difficult and yet many writers suffer from this same

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