Writers Autobiography

My experience as a writer goes as far back as i can remember. even now, i can see my first grade class room like i was there yesterday. My teacher, giving our class a writing assignment; usually to write non-stop without picking your pencil off the paper for five to ten minutes. We did this often and i always found myself being the last one to hand in there paper. We would write on this huge lined gray paper; the texture was rough and when you erased a word it smudged into a big gray blob. We had other paper like this, i always hated it but it was all they provided. I could never write for only ten minutes, it seemed like when my stories began to get good she would tell us to stop. How could i just stop when i had so much to say?


With all my class mates handing in there two page papers i always felt confident walking up last with my five page papers. It was at this time, that my teacher and parents told me "one day you could become a writer". I now see this as a great opportunity for myself, but at the time i looked at it as a huge expectation to live up to. Although as the years passed i shied away from writing, to the point that i wouldn't pick up a book to read.


By the seventh grade i fell into a major depression and began to write again. At this point my whole outlook had changed, i showed no one my work and felt very self conscience. I found this therapeutic for me, even reading has become a hobby of mine on an everyday bases. By high school, i had notebook's filled with stream of consciences, poems, short stories ..etc and it happened again. A creative writing teacher my junior year; who literally thought i was having something else write my work for me, (this was obviously false) thought i was a great writer. She was intrigued by my stories, and this gave me a new hope to keep writing. I'll never forget what she told me ; " You can make someone believe anything, even if its not real, and that's not something most people can do."