Hey, my name's Allison, and I've been posting my journals on fictionpress for years. Throughout those years, I have lost sight of who I was, why I was posting journals, deleted every journal on the site, created a new account, etc. However, I have recently realized exactly what I was trying to do and why, and I am determined to stick to it. I am now going to post an excerpt from the journal I am writing in now, and explain why I started in the first place.
12:15pm
When I was 6 I started reading because I saw the movie Matilda and thought reading would give me magic powers. So I picked up a copy of Oliver Twist and was overwhelmed by it, as most little kids in 1st grade would be. So I decided to start slower, and picked up books with a 1st grade reading level. Then 2nd. Then 3rd. By the time I was in 3rd or 4th grade, I was reading books meant for kids in middle school or possibly older. Actually, much older. I read Wuthering Heights at the age of 9. True, I had no idea what was going on, but I read the words, and I'd figure out what those words meant by their context in the sentence, so at a young age, my spelling and vocabulary was at a very high level. I was rarely taught spelling and vocabulary in elementary school. I got it all from reading high school and college level books.
I'm actually doing the same thing now. I'm old enough to know that the voice in my head isn't real, and that I never would've gotten telekinisis from reading Oliver Twist in 1st grade. However, in a way, I did get special powers. I loved to read books that were written in diary form. That's where I got the idea of a journal. Once I was old enough to have something to write about, a battle to fight, I started writing. I've noticed that a lot of my journals have a beginning, the middle, the climax, and an ending. It's like a book, a book in which there is a particular issue, and once the battle is over and I've won, I feel the need to end that journal and start a new one.
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