How to Begin Writing
One of the many benefits of writing is the freedom and ability to express oneself. There are no limits as to where you can go when you put that pen and paper to work, or better yet, begin typing to your heart's content.
Maybe you are the fictional writer, flying through the skies and fighting off fire-breathing dragons! Or…, maybe you are the little boy or girl reliving the memories of sitting on the front stoop eating ice cream with your friends on a bright, and sunny day. No matter what you choose to write about, just know that you are on your way to a journey of a lifetime.
Yet, while all of this is true, what happens when you can't figure out where to begin? With your fingers in type mode, you're sitting at your computer.
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She also discovered her love for writing at this time.
"I was in my middle school English class. One day my teacher gave our class an assignment to write an essay explaining whom we admired." She explains. She’d never written an essay before, and wasn't too sure of where to begin. "The teacher explained that a paragraph consisted of 5 or more paragraphs." She explains. Seeing as though a paragraph was already too many sentences, she wasn't ecstatic about this assignment.
To make a long story short, she waited until the last minute, then threw together some paragraphs of random thoughts and actually turned in her assignment. "Umm… I'd have no choice but to admit that I deserved what took place next." she says. This careless act resulted in a well expected grade. "My teacher was passing out our graded assignments to the class. When he came around to me, he sat the assignment on my desk and looked at me in such a disappointed manner. Holding my head down slightly peeking at the huge red "F" sitting on my desk, I dared not look up at this
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"I was frustrated, confused, angry and disappointed all at the same time. I failed to put a whole lot of thought into this assignment, but I felt that I'd wasted so much of my precious time on this assignment. Then to receive… an "F"?"
Later that day, after the school bell rang, she marched back to this teacher's classroom and demanded to know why she'd received such a low grade. SI he explains in frustration "I explained to him, that an essay is hard work, and that I had no clue as to what I was doing." He sat quietly staring at her while she rambled on. Then something happened. When she finished speaking her mind, he glared at her and said two words: "That's