Has your interest in reading ever led you to want to write yourself? Why or why not? If you have written anything, have you published it? Or have you even considered publishing your work?
When I was in school, I enjoyed writing. I don’t know that I enjoyed it as much as reading, however, I did enjoy it to a certain degree. When I was about the 5th or 6th grade, the English teacher I had at the time had encouraged me and my classmates to enter an essay into writing contest. I can’t remember the essay I submitted but I do remember that it had gotten an honorable mention at the contest. I had won a couple of little things like a poster and maybe a book or two. It wasn’t anything really huge but I had felt a little bit of pride that my essay had at least gotten an honorable mention. I wasn’t expecting anything at all really. I just did the essay for the grade we receive in class and didn’t expect anything beyond trying to get a good grade on my essay for my English class. But that made me happy when the teacher called my name out in the middle of class and told me that I had gotten the honorable mention in the writing contest.
I haven’t really thought about writing since I’ve become an adult. I honestly quite writing when I finished school because it wasn’t required of me any longer once I had graduated. I wouldn’t mind writing if I had a good enough idea to write and expand on to make into a book. That’s usually the hard part…..getting a good enough idea to begin with and building upon that.
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