BY MAKAYLA B. – 12 YEARS OLD
You may not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.
Jodi Picoult
I’ve been writing for quite some time, probably around a year, and it’s done a lot for me. Over that time, it has continued to teach me how to improve my writing. I think that writing in the newspaper has helped me improve in more ways than just improving how I write; it also has improved how I think and look at things.
Writing in the newspaper has improved my writing immensely due to the fact that my writing before I started doing this would be like a level three, or two point five. Now it’s gone to three point five, or even a four if I’m really lucky! Due to how much I’ve been writing, it has changed the way I think, causing larger words to be found in my thoughts, though I still struggle to use them as I talk. Being that writing has changed the way I look at things, I see different perspectives and helps me to better describe my drawings and other things around me.
Oh yes! One more thing; I have a much larger vocabulary now. Now I use words like: mundane, dull, drab, enthralling, and mind-boggling.
I will admit that sometimes I would rather be painting, or doing crafts, but now I am starting to see writing like art. It allows me to take words and paint a picture for the reader.
Writing did that for me.
