Writing Stories

Me - Writing Stories, wow! I love to write stories. I have written lots of stories, but most of them have been for school or for my sister's blog. My Mom and I write a blog of stories for my sister. It is called Stories for Aurella. Depending on the story, sometimes it takes me a long time to write a story and sometimes it takes me a short time. I am better at writing longer stories. I used to have trouble writing short enough stories for my sister's blog. I used to hate writing. My third grade teacher inspired me to love writing. In fact, I dedicated a story I wrote to her. I love writing fiction much better than nonfiction. I hate writing nonfiction. The only times I write nonfiction is when I have to in school and for this blog. I especially hate to write nonfiction when I have to do it in a certain amount of time for a test. It is so much more fun to write made up stuff. I love writing stories.

Mom - I always loved to write. When I was young, my Mom and Dad got me a typewriter for a birthday present because I was going to write stories. I never did though because while I loved to write, I hated to type, and I wasn't very good at it. When I was older, I did write, but I wrote everything out by hand. Later, when I had a computer, I typed almost everything up on the computer. I still didn't really like typing, but it was easier doing it on the computer than on the typewriter. When I got married and had kids, I stopped writing because I was too busy. As Melia got older, she developed an interest in writing. Her story writing inspired me to want to write again so we started this blog together. However, I was still interested in more creative writing so I started a story blog for my younger daughter. This blog serves two purposes. It keeps Aurella from being jealous of her sister having a blog with me because she has her own blog too, and it gives me an outlet for my creative writing. I used to write everything out in longhand, revise it in longhand, and then first type it on the computer. Now, I type all stories right into the computer. I don't really have enough time to do things the way I used to anyway. It is much too time-consuming. I am lucky I have time to write at all. I try to write a story a week, but sometimes I get really busy and don't write any stories. In the summer, I try to do a lot of extra stories and make-up for the weeks I missed. Sometimes, we are really busy in the summer though so I think it takes me the whole summer to finished making up for the weeks I missed. However, I promise Aurella (and myself) that I will get caught up in the summer and I do.

And that's our view. What do kind of writing do you like to do and how do you find the time to do it?

Tune in tomorrow for Funny Friday.

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