College Admissions Essay: The Importance Of Writing

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Writing Writing is another world out there, it's a land into creativity, where there’s no limits, and you can express anything you want. Considering the fact that you can base whatever your writing on something that’s true or something completely random. On the other hand, you can either make the characters in the story people you want to dream to meet, or create them to resemble people you miss and love. As well as the matter that you can keep the writing piece a secret if your uncomfortable with sharing your ideas. In general writing can be an extraordinary way to pass the time!
In order to have characters you first need a plot. A story line can basically be anything you want it to be, you don't have to force yourself into writing something you dislike. If you look at any book in the world, you can probably notice that the authors of those books weren’t forced to write those books whether its short stories, stories based off of true events, or something that was just for laughs, you can tell that the author really enjoyed writing that. Take Charlotte's Web for example, if the author were forced to write that book, why was there so much emotion
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Due to the fact that you can do anything you want with your characters, like give them a tragic backstory, give them superpowers, or you can be lazy, like me, and base characters off of your friends. Nevertheless, you should never make the characters something simple, because of the reason that you need character development. Without a good character reference, you won’t be able to alter their personality as you write along the way. You can look at the tv show The 100, at the beginning of the show Bellamy was pretty much a jerk to everyone, but his sister, however as the show progressed, he became willing to do anything to protect the The 100 kids, and the people of the

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