Once upon a time I loved creating stories as much as I love reading them. I can honestly say I enjoyed writing since I was a child and my fascination for it only grew as I got older. As a tween I kept a large binder full of fantasy stories and poems I created as well as quotes from my favorite books and TV shows… needless to say I was a huge nerd. However that was then, now the only writing I do that consist anything above five sentences are assignments given to me by my professors. I cannot recall when I stopped writing for myself or what caused it to become a chore. Perhaps it was in highschool when the majority of writing I did were essays and writing assignments I loathed. Now as much as I try to force myself to enjoy writing again I cannot. Even the thought of starting up my computer and opening a blank document on Google Docs makes me sick. Despite this, there still is one form of writing that I still do during my down time that has become immensely popular, especially among my generation. I spend a little over two hours on my phone texting other people. Of course it is nowhere near formal or creative material. In fact many of my messages to other people don't even contain real words. Including using a plethora of emojis in my text, I send abbreviations if sentences, if I should even call them that, such as K, ppl, lmao, lol, idk, wtf and many more of that nature. Not even simple words escape being chopped down into three letters or less; nevermind becomes ‘nvm’ okay turns into ‘k’, and even know loses its ‘w’ at times. The end result is almost always an illiterate jumble of letters with few actual words if any at all. Though illiterate as texting is, it is still a form of writing; you are gathering your thoughts and putting them in writing. So I may not be the inspired “writer” I once was however writing is still an vital part of my life academically and personally.
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Gillian Wainwright
1/31/2017 08:50:02 am
I find this blog post to be very relate-able to people our age. I have similar views on the ways writing has changed for me over the years. High school definitely made the idea of writing into a boring thing. If you could do without the essays in high school and just have had more testing in the place of essays, would you choose to do that?
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elisa
1/31/2017 01:53:42 pm
i fell that is how we most are. we start out of a nerd loving what we do then high school ruins it and we have less time and energy
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Monique L Williams
1/31/2017 02:24:19 pm
Do you have a wattpad? I would totally read your short stories. I'm at an agreement when you fall of from something for so long, you lose interest.
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Janai Church
1/31/2017 03:17:03 pm
I would read her short stories as well.
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1/31/2017 03:14:19 pm
Omg!!!! I could visualize every word I read and I cant tell that writing seems as a chore from reading this. Keep up the good work!
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Janai Church
1/31/2017 03:16:08 pm
I responded so quickly I forgot to put my name on it LOL so that 1 is me.
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Sabatino
2/1/2017 01:39:37 pm
I appreciated your discussion about the ways texting have impacted our modern use of language:
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Emily Masuda
2/6/2017 08:30:16 pm
I hate text language! Although lately I've started to use it, and I'm ashamed with myself. I understand how you feel and relate to hating writing assignments, I've never enjoyed it. However for once in this class I've felt inclined to write more than ever before which is surprising to me. Maybe you just have to get into the flow of things again, and just write anything on your mind at the time, even if it sucks at first.
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