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I Am A Writer: Here’s My Journey
Y’know I never really considered myself a writer. Yet, looking back now, I was quite the storyteller.
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As A Kid
I used to write fake news reports when I was a kid and set up the camera on our karaoke machine and pretend I was presenting on air.
I attended Oxford Learning Centre in the summer between grades 6 and 7 and then 7 and 8. During that second summer I was to write a short story. The teacher expected 2–3 pages. I think I wrote about 14. It was the same in school. In 8th grade I was to write another short story, 5 pages max. I wrote 6 and ½.
The funny thing is, looking at my old report cards, I always had a solid B in all my English classes. I didn’t get my first A in English until my Grade 9 final exam (and I was both surprised and damn proud of that 92%).
In High School
During high school I also got really good at writing essays. They weren’t perfect, I wasn’t getting 100% on everything, but I was getting on average an 85% or more (which counts as an A, for my American readers). Mind you, once I had an essay planned out with the appropriate research I had it done in an hour. I literally never spent more than a few hours researching and writing an essay, I never edited them…
