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Being Read to
When I was little I loved reading. I forced my mom to read Junie B. Jones to me every night and I'm pretty sure I sometimes read the books myself. I had a ton of the Junie B. Jones books. -
My First Story
When I was little, probably close to five, I wrote a very short, poorly written story about three wolves named Sam, Sammy, and Samuel. If I recall right, Sam was the protagonist, Sammy was really dumb, and Samuel was evil. I don't remember the plot, but I'm sure it wasn't too great. I remember making at least a part 1, I may have made a part 2 and 3 but I'm not certain.
I also remember making a comic about it. -
Warriors
For years I've loved Erin Hunter (a group of 3 or 4 women under the same pen name) and they are my favorite authors. What introduced me to them when I was young was a book series called Warriors, a series about cats. When was really little I would look at fan-made stuff on YouTube and after a while I finally read the books. I still have over twenty of them though I've mostly lost interest in the series.
These books actually helped me develop myself as a person and my skills. -
The Giver
In 5th grade my teacher read The Giver to our class.
This book was important for me because it's how I discovered what kind of books I like.
I love books that are about a different, usually dystopian, society.
The Giver is still one of my all time favorite books. -
Peter Pan
I think it was 6th grade my class started reading Peter Pan. We never finished it, which I was not happy about.
I actually enjoyed the book, unlike everyone else in my class. -
Creating an Original Character
When I was about 11 I made a wolf character named Snow and gave him a full on backstory and such. I occasionally tried to write about him.
He was not my first character but probably my first important one to growing as a writer. I still have him and am re-working his story.
He's probably one of my favorite characters I've created. -
Twilight
Around 6th grade my mom gave me Twilight to read, because she likes the books and wanted me to read them too. We would sometimes talk about the book though I don't remember much of what we said. As ridiculous as sparkly vampires are I actually enjoyed the books. -
A Long Walk to Water
In 7th grade we read A Long Walk to Water. I honestly don't remember much from the book but I'm pretty sure I enjoyed reading it, though I absolutely hated the assignments on it. Also I think my book ended up in less than great shape at the end of the year, oops. I hope I remember that wrong... -
The Outsiders
We read this book in eighth grade, and I loved the book. It's probably one of my favorite books but I could say that about most books.
But we by far had the worst assignments to do on it, I hated them. -
Writing Poetry
In 8th grade my class was assigned to do some form of writing. I chose to try poetry. I wrote a total of eight poems that year and haven't written one since, though it was very fun and I enjoyed writing them and felt that I did pretty good.
