Personal Essay: Why I Am Not A Writer

I’m a reader and not a writer. I am supposed to write this essay to tell you why I am or aren't a reader or writer.

I am a reader, not a writer. I am not a writer because I hate writing. It’s boring to me, and it takes too long. What turned me off of writing in school is the fact that we have all these prompts. For instance, I remember a prompt specifically from the sixth grade. The prompt read, write about the best day of your life. Are you kidding me? For one, I was like eleven in the sixth grade, what makes you think I’ve had the best day of my life? I don’t get it. For two it takes me entirely too long to come up with something to write. I usually end up making something up so I can get the prompt done and over with. I make something up because the prompt didn’t say, write a

She did this thing where we all had to sit on the floor and she’d pick a person to start our “group story”. After the story was started, she’d go around the rug and we’d all have to contribute a word or a sentence to the story. She also gave us a lot of prompts. She made me become bored with writing. She also had a poetry unit, and she’d give us a certain subject to write poetry about. She made writing boring for me even now it’s boring. To this day I hate writing, and I’ll probably hate it forever. As of right now even writing this essay I hate it and wish I wasn’t doing it. It’s boring and I want to go to sleep. That's probably why it's late. I hate writing.

Although I thoroughly enjoy reading. When I was about eight or nine my grandma took me to the library and got me a library card. So every time I visited my grandma we went to the library. My grandma and I would sit in her room in her bed and read books together. I was mostly into Nancy Drew and Harry Potter at the time. I know that I should have a high reading score because I started early I don’t because, during the test I get tired and I start clicking random