My Passion for Reading and Writing
I love books… all kinds of them: fiction, adventure, romance. Starting from a young age, I fell in love with books such as Peppa Pig and the Magic Treehouse. That led me to read harder leveled books like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, while still not missing out on the fun Geronimo Stilton novels. Now that I’m older, books I read have morals to them that I cannot miss, such as Call of the Wild where there is a huge debate on the topics nurture vs nature. There are also more nonfiction books around, and though the plot of the book is not as interesting as the fiction ones, I enjoy them very much.
Here is the essay that was published in the magazine.
Writing has always come easy for me. I always have many different ideas to write about, especially since I’ve read many books that expand my knowledge. I started writing short fictional stories in third grade, and quickly developed a passion for it. I wrote about the adventure of a little raindrop's journey through the clouds and ocean; I wrote about the tale of the Little Red Riding Hood from the perspective of the big bad wolf and many more. Then, I signed up for John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Writing Program, which made my writing skills surge. After reading books about dragons and fantasy, I wrote about a girl trying to distinguish the bad dragon from the good dragon. One of the stories included a glass slipper that controlled the dragon queen, which made me think of Cinderella’s glass slipper, and I wondered what would have happened if she could control her stepmother and stepsisters with the glass slipper… and so I wrote about that.
In recent years, I have been more focused on writing about my life than the fun creative stories I did in elementary school. I started a blog in sixth grade that recorded down important moments of my life.
In addition to those, I have joined the middle school newspaper as an editor this year. Our newspaper is called Setting Sail, and you can send artworks or writings to the editing team, where they will pick out some to publish at the end of the year. The editing team consists of only eighth graders, but I always wanted to be published in a newspaper since I love writing, so I submitted many pieces of work during the 6th and 7th grade. Last year, my essay “Oops, I forgot” and haikus, “Descendants” and “Audible” were published within the eight writing articles, and I was the only one to have two pieces of work in the newspaper! That was a great accomplishment and this year, I hope to see more young authors of the Middle School submit their work to Setting Sails!
As you can probably tell, my passion for reading and writing supports my love for English class, which is also why that is my favorite subject. During English class, we always spend the first five to ten minutes writing about a creative prompt given from the teacher. It could be a picture of a forest or asking about a song lyric that was especially memorable to you. I love this part of the English curriculum because this is where I get to write about a variety of topics and bring out my creative side. After writing, we always get to share, and I’d be the first to raise my hand to do so. The sharing part connects my thoughts to others, and through this activity, I find out all the different perspectives that could be written on the same prompt.
