Personal Narrative: Reading Vs. Writing

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I have always looked at myself as a person who’s better at numbers than writing, and reading. I have never really enjoyed reading or writing, because I never been good at it. It felt like it took me forever to read a book, and that alone made me just watch a movie instead of reading a book, and that didn’t make me a better reader or writer. I was not surprised that I wasn’t good at it though, because I never practiced.
Before College when I got a writing assignment, I often opened a word document, and stared at the document for ten minutes before I came up with something to write. But, I feel that something has changed lately. At the moment I open a word document, and I enjoy the writing process, which I have not been doing earlier. Suddenly

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