My earliest memory with writing was third grade, when I wrote a series of reports on the fictitious Godzilla and her babies terrorizing the U.S.A.. I know, how interesting and random, but it made my teacher laugh and I enjoyed it. It even landed me a spot at a creative writing seminar for kids. More recently, writing isn’t as fun as back then, but it still has enjoyable parts to it.
Throughout middle school I remember refining my creativity and writing, but I don’t remember any project or paper that pops out in my memory. That doesn’t mean I didn’t write about things I liked or believed in, they were just too much of a task to edit and finish. During middle school it was a time of trying to juggle multiple subjects and teachers and to try and enjoy your writing assignments at the same time was hard to manage.
When did writing become a task? Was it when we started getting grades for them or when it stopped being topics we enjoy? I don’t know the answer, but that’s how I view writing now, at least school related writing. In AP English writing was academic and meticulous. Each sentence edited and rewrote a million time, but the spark of enjoyment was still there for me. I may have had a few sleepless nights writing and rewriting, but the joy of my fingers gliding across the keyboard and losing time to the words was still there.
Since high school writing hasn’t been a priority or even really a thought. What would I even write about? So, as boring as writing may seem to others or how time consuming it is, I’m excited to start writing again. It has always been something I enjoy and I hope to continue that enjoyment throughout my college education.
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