Imagine what your life would be like if you didn’t have the capability to read or write. For me, life would be quite dull, and a harsh reality. Reading is my escape. Nothing compares yo the moment when I open a book. I get so involved into the story that I feel as if I am one of the characters getting to experience everything alongside them. And when I, or anyone for that matter writes, they have the opportunity to create a masterpiece in which their readers can too feel that sensation. As far back as my memory can go, I have always cherished and loved being able to open up a book and escape to a new world, along with just knowing that I can create possible life changing story to share with my readers.
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As a writer you have the power of letting someone escape from the world and into the words you write at your fingertips. I personally don’t have as strong of a connection to writing as I do reading. Although, I did have the opportunity to possibly let someone escape, not necessarily into a new world, but into the past. In the fifth grade we were assigned to write a book that contained just a few pages, and I knew exactly what I was going to write. Not shortly before this, my family adopted a precious baby girl from China, and I knew this would be the perfect time to tell her story. I immediately went home and got started. I had never felt this type of excitement before, because I had never done anything like this. I had never written a book before. I began writing about the long drawn out process it took to finally hold her in our arms, how thrilled I was to be a big sister, and how thankful I was that God handpicked her to be in our family. I was given the opportunity to provide my new sister with words of how much I love her. She is eight now and has read this book before, but doesn’t fully comprehend all the things I wrote. Even though this book was written by my fifth grade self, I know that when she gets to that stage in her life when she can take this book into its fullness. she can hopefully enter into the past with the words I