Cwilcox+On+Writing

Cwilcox Short Stories

On Writing I remember my first day of school writing down letters and wonder what they were and what they meant. I enjoyed doing this and I loved learning. Writing was actually fun even though I didn’t understand much about it. At the time I was not even thinking about how writing will impact my future. And then later in the years of grammar school we learned how to write creative writing stories. I very much loved to make up stories and jot them down on pieces of paper. You could make up anything you wished. For instance I remember one story I wrote about how I was abducted by a bunch of gingerbread men and they brought me back to the Candy Land. I was never really good at writing but I had some pretty neat ideas. Then my first year of middle school was awful. They sat us down and told us to write a persuasive essay. I had never heard of this and I was just thinking this is our first day and we are already writing. So I wrote down an essay and this is when I realized how bad I actually was at writing. I wrote down what I thought was a good piece of work but then I got it back and I swear the whole paper was covered in red pen. This was when writing was starting to get hard. Now in the present day writing is very challenging. I often stare blankly at the screen wondering what to write. I look at pieces that everyone else does and I see how good they are at it. They add so much detail and I just get to the main point. They then add words that I would have never thought in using. I have never really been the best at writing and have never really enjoyed it.