The Importance Of Writing

Reading and writing have always been pleasurable activities for me. As stated in the first heading, I have enjoyed literature ever since I was young. As far as a preferable reading category, I have always enjoyed fictional series, however, as I get older I enjoy reading more nonfiction from a learning standpoint. I find more pleasure in learning about subjects that I am interested in rather than entertaining my imagination. The only magazine I get every month is the Men’s Health magazine because I thoroughly enjoy learning about fitness, wellness, and overall betterment of the human body. The frequency of my reading depends on my schedule. Normally, I can only handle one book at a time, so if I am assigned to a novel in school then I focus

My experience with literature started when I was in the first grade. My first-grade teacher was named Ms. Young. Every Friday, all the teachers would come together to have story time and read the children a book. I would be so excited for story time because I would sit down with my best friends Ashley and Jordan, and we would listen to the teacher that was assigned to read to us. During story time, all the children would gather around in a big circle and the teacher would be in the center in a big brown rocking chair, and read. Over time in the school year, the children would read bigger and longer books like the Junie B. Jones series, chapter books, and the extreme level, which would be the Harry potter series. Sometimes I would fall asleep because the book that was read was very dull. I remember Ms. Young read to us the “Very Hungary Caterpillar”9 by Eric Carle. I loved that book as a child. It had great illustrations of the caterpillar turning into a butterfly. This book made me love reading for the rest of my life. Now in college, I love to read books. I only

I as a reader enjoy reading, however I do not do it as often as I would like. I always have trouble starting books, I would say that the first five to chapters are the hardest to get through. I admire how with reading you are able to make your own depiction of what’s happening, instead of seeing what others envisioned. To me a great book must have twists and turns to keep me interested. I love being able to get to know the characters, feeling as if they are apart of your own life, being able to see them as almost a friend in your own life. Taking their life lessons and putting them to use in your own. I like more romantici books where they have to get over many obstacles to obtain their great love. I also enjoy reading about a character who is able to turn their troubles around and become better than they once were.

Reading is a wonderful pastime. It allows me to mentally travel to far away lands in the present, the archaic past, or the advanced technological future. Reading allows me to be present during every struggle or joy the protagonist may face. It is a wonderful way to learn about fascinating cultures without physically traveling to other lands. It is a gateway to long, sleepless nights because I can become fully entranced by a story. Favorite books of mine include Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak. Both of these stories wonderfully illustrate internal human conflict as well as love, loyalty, and emotional and physical pain. These are just a few of the joys of

I mostly write because I am required to for a course. If it's not school related I do it to clear my thoughts. I really enjoy writing music because it comes very naturally to me. Even though I know I will go no where in the music industries I will continue to do it because it helps me deal with stress. I also write ti help other people get a different perspective on things, which may help them learn and succeed.

I enjoy writing for the most part. If I am given a topic to write about, I enjoy

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one,” wrote George R.R. Martin. People read all kinds of books, some just for fun and others just for work. There is no limit to the books that can be found in this world, and even more are still being made now. Murder mystery, romance, adventure, action, etc. Books open the mind and create a mental movie only you can enjoy. You can decide what every individual looks like, what the scene looks like, and you can pretty much do anything when you read. For part of my life, reading did not play a major role; however, now it is a way of life.

I have always been passionate about writing. From a young age, I would wake up on Saturdays and run straight to the computer to pour all of my thoughts into whatever story I would imagine that week. It brought me great delight and pleasure to express my thoughts in a way over which I had free reign, creating beings and worlds without limit or restraint of reality. I see writing as my best and most natural form of communication.

Computers have done a lot of things to make my life easier but I would not like one grading my paper. There are so many important elements to writing that involve emotion that I wouldn’t trust a computer to understand. Good writing should make you feel something. Artificial intelligence has come a long way but it is exactly that, artificial. I want a human to grade my papers. Another important element of writing is your audience and if you know your teacher likes writing a certain way then you should cater to that when you are writing.

That, of course, is easy for me to say; I have always loved to write. Conversely, however, I have always hated it as well. Writing, not unlike any other activity, varies

I absolutely adore literature of all sorts and am an avid reader of anything and everything. I have always loved picking up a good book and am able to sit down and read for hours. This is a passion that has only grown with time and will only continue to grow as long as a good bookstore or library close by.

I love reading, I always have and I always will. I love going to the books store and picking up a new book in a series or a standalone. Lately there have been other ways to read books. You no longer have a 20 minute car ride to go to the nearest book store; instead books are at the touch of your fingertips in seconds by a nook or kindle.

Reading is my life. I enjoy every book that I pick up. I have many favorite authors from all types of backgrounds and all types of genres. My five favorite books are as followed: A Thousand Splendid Suns, My Sister’s Keeper, My Sister’s Keeper, The Secret Life of Bees and Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man. Each novel plays an important role in my life, they helped me get through some tough times. The books that I read while I was in high school helped me to find courage, to find faith, to find myself, and to understand love.

Growing up, I thought of writing as discomforting and boring because sometimes a sentence would take too long to write and I would fear that my handwriting would be more terrible than others. However, as the years passed by and I progressed, I started to grow a settling interest for 3rd person writing. Thanks to my love for reading stories, I wanted to create my own set of stories and use my imagination to put it down in words. Although there was more to this in the real world than writing stories, this is what gained my interest in writing and the one thing that made me feel comfortable while writing.

Why do you think writing became so important in the ancient world? What was gained with the invention of writing? What do you think was lost? (pg.12) The Sumerians were the first people to invent writing as a means of long-distance which was needed for trade. I think writing became so important in the ancient world because that was there main way to communicate. They wrote on things in temples, papyrus, and broken pieces of pottery from ancient Egypt. The hieroglyphic script was one of the oldest writing systems, and was used for recording and communicating information. They used pictures to communicate, not being able to record specific information such as a name of the leader, or events of a battle. Cuneiform was a gain the ancient world got from writing. It became a general purpose writing systems, keeping agricultural records. The writing began as a system of simple symbolic pictures. I do not think anything was lost with the invention of writing. I think it helped the world, because we can learn about the past from them. Writing recorded the lives of a people and the written history of a culture or civilization (Mark 2011).