Writing for School/Do I Want to Write

When it comes to writing for school, I have mixed emotions. I don’t mind free writing. I like to be able to write down my thoughts. It is always fun going back later and seeing all of the random things that were on my mind. And I don’t mind writing papers about a book I’ve read, or an opinion piece. I used to keep a diary and I wrote in it every so often. I liked having that around but after a while I stopped writing in it. But I cannot stand writing research papers. I hate the whole process. First you have to pick a topic. Then, you need to start researching. Next, you read though all of the sources and highlight what’s important. Finally, you write draft after draft and cite source after source just so you can get a decent grade. I also don’t really like writing poetry. I never really understood it and I am not very creative so I was never very good.

I don’t think I want to write in the future. I don’t have the desire to be a writer. If I ever wrote, it would probably be a children’s book. I feel like that would be fun to write because you can really use your imagination and make it as strange or as colorful as you wanted. That was actually always something I wanted to do. But, of course, that wouldn’t be my main career. I would just write a children’s book on the side—as a hobby. If I chose a career associated with writing, it would probably involve more informal writing—like letters or something of that sort. I wouldn’t want to write a business proposal or something along those lines. Writing has never been something I loved to do.