Writing is a form of art where any person can bring their ideas to life and is loved by many who have a creative mind. For Osbourn High School, there are a decent number of students with writing talents who would love to share their experiences when it comes to writing and a special piece of advice from a staff member.

Writing, for students, is a great approach to escape reality by creating a new one. Every student has a different type of reality they would like to create based on who that person is and their personality. “It’s a really good form of self-expression. It’s also sort of a way to escape reality by getting to create a new one and I like getting to create characters and worlds and determine how those characters in worlds will interact,” said creative writing senior Kai Johnson.

There are different types of writing that writers could choose from such as short stories, novels, poems, and many more. For this student, he loves not to just write but to also draw the characters and events in his stories to bring them to life. “I love to do graphic novels. Not only does it pass the time but it helps my drawings get better and also my writing skills. I think that the reader will understand more if there are pictures other than words,” said freshman student writer Gert Pedersen.

However, writing just doesn’t come out of the blue, it needs some thinking behind it before you can start writing. It could be from inspiration or your own ideas but writers need to do critical thinking before executing their writing. “I just sit down and think about something that most people aren’t talking about and since it’s not popular, I take it as an original idea since I want my ideas to be original. So I pick something that’s not popular and write about those,” said senior journalist Emely Luna.

Once writers finish their writing for the first time, it is not going to be perfect and writers need other individuals for their advice to make their writing at its best.“I write it to other people first before I publish it. So I’ll get one of my friends and I’ll have them read over it and they’ll give me some critiques because sometimes I have teachers read it until I publish it, and I’ll write it to others to polish my article,” said sophomore yearbook journalist Cash Davis.

Writing isn’t only just a hobby, it could help writers prepare for the near future by gaining confidence and help with college when it comes to essays and other writing required to do in college. “It’s helping my near future already because creative writing is kind of essay writing if you can utilize both skills together, especially for college essays where you have to write about yourself but it also helps with creative creativity and in forming art pieces, because everything is more influential if it has a story to it. Like nobody is going to connect with an orange but it’s like, oh this is the orange my mom peeled for me because she always peeled fruit because I always hated the skin and it’s like, oh that’s sweet. It has more of an emotional connection with your audience, so it helps with that and then also it would help with public speaking and being more confident because writing is always something to put yourself out there,” said junior creative writing student Adeline Wehner.

Writers should be open-minded to critiques and able to listen to others’ advice on how to make their writing better. Writers should be extremely proud of the feeling that they have improved. “We are always going to be improving and advising, so sometimes people would be embarrassed of their old work and you shouldn’t be embarrassed but proud by the fact that you have improved by seeing things that need to be advised,” said creative writing teacher Mr Edwards.

What do you think about writing? If you have an idea for one of your writings, I would love to read it in the comments!