Why I Love Writing Essay Example

I’ve always loved to read and write. Reading and writing have always come easy to me. I don’t write as well, sometimes, at school because it’s not something I want to write about. 

I remember reading different children's books with my parents when I was younger. My parents read, “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish,” “The Cat in the Hat,” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” to me. Normally they would read with me before bed or sometime in the evening. My parents helped me the most. They would explain things in the books that I wouldn’t understand and helped me read them out loud, and know what they meant. I liked to read at night by myself before I went to bed. I started reading at night around 4th grade and stopped around my freshman year. 

When I first start reading a book, I struggle to get invested in the story, but over time I start to enjoy the plot. I enjoy reading fiction books the most. I also enjoy starting a series instead of reading a singular book. I read to envision a whole other world. Fiction books have so many possibilities, and at times, help me be more creative with my own imagination. I get intimidated by poetry or books/stories from long ago (i.e., Shakespeare, etc.)

My first memories of writing are in elementary school. In my 4th and 5th grade years, my teachers would let us have free time to write whatever we wanted. We then would go around to everybody's stories and give them feedback. I liked this a lot because I could write about whatever I wanted. I felt like I was a great writer, for my age, because I taught myself how to use the correct grammar and punctuation in my own writing. I like writing because ultimately it is YOUR story. YOU can envision anything in your writing and be as creative as you want. 

I enjoy writing now because I am good at it. I like being able to write about whatever I want. When I get writing assignments at school, I don’t really like it or want to do it. Most of the time these writings don’t matter to me because I don’t really have a connection to the writing. It just feels forced to write something assigned to me. I feel proud once I am done writing because I can see my own story unfold, and I see all my creative thoughts on paper. One thing that intimidates me is the time I have to dedicate to writing the story. I tend to procrastinate a lot, but I think this has made me a better writer. It has taught me how to write under pressure. 

I am still learning many things about writing. I view myself as a pretty good reader and writer. I see myself writing more in the future as I learn more aspects of language and literature. I enjoy reading and writing, but still have WAY more to learn about it.