Personal Narrative: Me As A Writer

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I’m not like the usual people who write, I don’t have to write. I’m not the person who has to pour his or her soul on the paper just to make it through the day. When I wrote my first screenplay for an eleven minute long short film, I was ecstatic. My over sentimental feelings were finally being released and I could stop bursting out in tears in the slightest misfortune. Since I was younger I had the habit of bottling up my feelings and often would release them at the most inappropriate moments. My mother decided to give me a diary to help me, but I used this diary to write stories instead. Stories of lands far away, realistic fiction, stories of parallel universes created by the slightest decisions. These stories turned into screenplays, films

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