How I started Writing
I went to an underperforming school as a child, so I wasn’t expected to be able to correctly write sentences until around a year or two after the normal child. It turns out, that was not the case for me. I learned how to read and write the same time, if not earlier, than the average child. That’s when my ability to write kicked off.
I still remember the day when I was successfully able to read a small novel in Kindergarten, because my teacher was amazed. I was lonely, because I couldn’t read with a group because I would show off, so I had to read higher books all on my own. I did not enjoy reading, by any means, but I loved writing, because it was just like talking, but I could think about something before writing it, so I could write things that I had put thought into.
Then, in the first grade, I was in a building with the higher grades, so when it was time to read, my teacher would send me to a third grade class to read and write with them. It was the perfect level for me, so every day, I went to a third grade class. I would write paragraphs with them, because we were not yet on essays. But I loved to write them, because I could say what I felt. I especially liked prompts that involved persuasion.
By the time I was in the 5th grade, essays were really easy. I would get in trouble because I never used the brain storming methods that the teacher had taught me, because I would make up my entire essay as soon as I read the prompt. Truth is, I never learned the brain storming methods because I knew I would never need them.
The this day, the only tests I get excited for are ones that involve short answer explanations for things, and writing prompts that involve explanation or persuasion. Informal prompts are somewhat difficult for me, but I can still do them in 10 minutes of the 45 minutes that were given to us for standardized testing.
