Why Write Is Important To Me

There are many different reasons why people write; to express their inner thoughts, to deliver a message, to tell a story, to live forever, or just simply for entertainment. The reason for why I write is to become what I’m not. I want to be able to experience the thoughts and feelings of what others might be going through. I want to know how someone living in the 1500s might feel and I want to know how life is on a fictional world. Maybe it’s because I want some excitement in my life, maybe it’s because I yearn to learn the stories of others, or maybe it’s because I want to escape from reality. I am like the typical girl who enjoy binge watching every drama and movie out there. Every time I watch something, it could even be a short three minutes video, I would still feel as if I was the main character. There are times where I hate the choices the characters makes. I want to …show more content…
However, when I was in 8th grade I wrote for the first time. My social studies teacher gave out an assignment to write a book and the setting had to be during a historical time period. This was a huge challenge for me because I never wrote before and I don’t know the lifestyle of the people in the past. We have thousands of years of history and there are so many different countries’ history to choose from. I had no idea what I wanted to write about. Finally, I thought of an idea of a girl dressed up as a guy to join a ship crew. This idea was inspired by a drama that I was watching where a girl pretended to be a guy to enroll in the all-male college to see her crush. After researching, I decided to write about the second voyage of John Cabot to Newfoundland, Canada. I chose this because during his second voyage, John Cabot disappeared from the face of the Earth and no one knows what happened to him. I thought that I can utilize this to create my version of what