Erin's Reading And Writing Outside Of Class

I'm just going to be straight forward about this, I don't read for fun. The only thing I read that doesn't involve school is the Bible. In elementary school, I would skim through books and take quizzes on them so I could get points. This was called "Star Reader." With a combination of short books (worth less points) and Nancy Drew's (a bigger book is worth more points), I would always beat everybody in my class because they took the time to read the books and I just looked through them. Mrs. Carson tried to get her classes to read "The Scarlet Letter" outside of class but we would talk her in to reading the book to us during class. If I absolutely have to read a book, like a summer reading book, I like mysteries because they build suspense. It makes the reader want to keep reading. My mom found out that I like mystery books so when I was in 4th grade she bought me a whole set of them. To this day, I have read a couple but most of them are still sitting on my bookshelf.....unread.

Writing is pretty much the same for me. I hate writing essays, biographies, research papers, ect. I can not think of one thing I like about it. Writing essays about myself are kind of easy, but I don't like doing it. Even though i hate writing, I have no choice in school. Some of the advice you have given us like, don't use fluff have helped me. I used to always fluff my sentences if the essay had to be a certain word count. Now, I just get straight to the point.