"When I was little, instead of playing on the playground with all my friends, I would sit inside and write stories. It all began in kindergarten, when we started tracing the little dotted letters on pages, over, and over, and over. I got the hang of it fairly quickly, and in the middle of the year, we began making those letters into words, and words into sentences. Every day we would have an assignment to write about what we did the previous day. I would always write a little more than I had to, and put a little picture at the top. Most of the kids took up half the page with a picture, but mine was small, and I filled up that picture space with more words. I remember the day when my teacher held up my paper and said "This is how you spell "baby." See how Caitlin did this?" I was so proud of myself for writing neatly and spelling a word all by myself."
This is a quote from my previous narrative, talking about how I grew up writing. I always, always loved writing, and I still do today. My dream is to write a book and get it published someday- although I do have other dreams too- but I can't get the right topic. I try and try, over and over, but I can't get it right. I would start over again and again, and every time, I would think to myself "How is this story going to work out later on in the book?" and just stop and throw it away right there. I think I might of found the perfect subject now that I've started high school. Surviving High School: Freshman-Senior.
Believe it or not, I take notes on what happens every day at school. For example, I would start out from the end of summer, and go on to tell my tragic story with the other school that I was going to go to. Here is the first few sentences of my book:
"Well, I guess my high school is not going to be the one I actually want to go to. We'll see how it works out, I hope it'll be okay, I won't be miserable. They can't just kick me out by one point, can they? Orientation is tomorrow, will I see anyone I know? Will I make friends? High school is stressful."
"The best day ever had to be today. I saw everyone that I could possibly know, and I made four new friends, on the first day. High school won't be so bad after all."
I was motivated to write my book by my mom and my old teachers. They told me frequently that I had a gift for writing, and that I should always write creatively. I love doing narratives and essays, as long as the teacher lets me put some of my own experiences in them. I love to write in extreme detail, and I always have, even since Kindergarten, as explained in my opening paragraph.
Not everyone loves writing, but boy do I. As long as you put your mind to it, writing can be like ice cream on a hot summer's day. Speaking of which, I would also write short stories all during summer, on how excruciating the weather was, and how I swam with dolphins one year, and how refreshing a nice cold lemonade was while sitting by the pool. I was a write-a-holic. There would be good and bad stories all over the floor of my room, and I loved to pick them up and continue writing, then when I finished throw them back on the floor for later. I wasn't very organized that summer.
I want to share some of my flaws of writing. I repeat myself. A lot. If you noticed, I said "I love...." a million times and that is certainly something that I have to work on. Another one of my flaws is to have at least 1,000 words in my essay, which I still don't have. Believe me, I have a self party once I reach 1,000 words. 100 will not cut it for me. The absolute minimum is 999 words, which rarely happens to me. I don't have many flaws, but the ones that I do, I really need to work on.
I really hope to publish my book someday, and share it with a lot of people. I believe that it would be somewhat of a self help book, but also a story of my life in high school. Guess what everybody? I have 1,006 words!
My dream continues on today, and I already have three to four chapters. It's been three weeks. I would like to conclude my narrative with another passage from my previous one.
"I've always loved writing dearly, almost more than anyone else did in lower and middle school. I still love to write today, as you can see by this essay. I had so much fun writing this, and I can't wait for another narrative because I know exactly what I'm going to write about. Every year, my love for writing grew, until it grew into an obsession, where I wrote at least three paragraphs every day. Writing is like a stress tool for me, whenever I write, I feel better, and I can write about how I feel or what I did that day and so on. Writing means so much to me and it should mean something to everyone else, too, because it expresses emotion and feeling, and hopefully, you felt some of my emotions in this story. Writing for me is like having your favorite thing right in front of you, wether it's food, an animal, or something else, that's what writing is like for me. You never really know what's in for you, until you realize it later on in life. You never know, maybe a few poems can turn you into the next big thing later on in life."
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