Personal Narrative: My Writing Journey

methods, he inspired his students to be themselves and act like individuals. He teaches them to

I have wanted to be a writer since before I could read. As a child, I copied picture books out onto sheets of paper, with the illustrations and all of the letters, before I could even put

He offered many stories from his time with Native American culture. According to his students, he had an innate ability to describe a situation and put you at the center of the action.

The earliest memory of my writing is in 4th grade we had to do the weekend news every Monday and it was due at the end of the day. I first would write down bullet points of what I did, for example, if I celebrated a birthday with someone or hanged out with my friends then we had to write it by hand on notebook paper and it had to be at least a page long. I was always the quickest because of what I did.

Until that time, I loved writing just as much as I loved math. It was one of my strengths. I was good at it, and I enjoyed it. If anything, I thought I might fail citizenship. How could I have screwed up writing? I surely spelled every word correctly,

I am doing a writing about my writing. Sounds weird right? I would have never considered myself as much as a writer; until I learned in class that I do a lot more writing than I ever thought I did. As it turns out writing can be any form of communication and I was unaware of that.

I never knew what to write, I was so worried about completely messing everything up, no one wants to feel inadequate or incompetent. Journal and story writing was the only form of writing I enjoyed in school. I would write about funny dogs and giants my classmates and I had her own story books to fill front to back with anything we could think of. When the stories were graded they would be adorn in smiley face stickers, proudly worn like a badge of

I believe that everyone should chase their dreams and never give up no matter how hard it gets. Two years ago during my sophomore year my friend, Janet, introduced me to a writing app called Wattpad. I fell in love with the app and my friend had written a story on their as well she encouraged me to publish a story I had been writing on Wattpad too. After some debate I decided take her advice and publish the story other people I knew ended up reading the book and told me to keep writing. So I continued to write throughout my sophomore year it was fun and easy at first until I ran into writers block and the story grinded to a halt.

would write to my parents, telling them I would no doubt be a famous author or illustrator one day. I remember my

From an early age, I wrote. It's what I did and could usually be found with a pencil and paper in hand. Though back then it was strictly for my eyes and mine alone. It was my much-needed escape when it wasn't a physical possibility, stuck in a small town where everyone knew who you were and what everyone else was up to. As a child, I didn't care if it made sense, if I was using proper syntax—after all, it was for me. I simply let whatever was in my head out, in whichever way it chose.

second language. Through his example of resilience. He was able to show me; The human mind

I have always enjoyed writing, perhaps not as much as speaking, but enjoyed nonetheless. I began writing in primary school, and I distinctly remember deciding in grade five that I was going to write a novel. This is an idea that sends shivers down my spine now, as the idea of writing creatively is not one that I like, to say the least. From that point I slowly changed from someone who enjoyed the creativity of writing fiction to the angry and cynical non-fiction writer I am today. The reason why I made this change is quite clear to me, and although it only occurred rather recently, I can identify its origin in my childhood.

be the best he could be. He was so eager to learn things and he was

I can remembered that my first time of writing was very bad. I did not understand

writing. My attitude was very positive because the I see writing as a form of art. Similar to music