Developing a writing style
Walker, Kelsie

KELSIE: I've always been especially kind of attracted to books and just growing up I've always loved to read. In elementary school, there was a program, the AR Readers Program, and it was you checked a book out from the library and you read it and then you took a quiz on it on the computers in the library and you got points based on how many you missed. The harder the book it was the more points you got and they had a contest and you'd get like little buttons when you reached certain point levels. At the end of the year I got second place and it was a pretty big deal; they announced it and they put it in the awards ceremony. I got ride in a limo and we went to like CiCi's pizza or something. I just loved to read and I guess as far as the writing aspect, I would write in like an old journal, diary kind of thing and I still have them and I would look at them and it was so kind of juvenile, the writing that I did. I guess I never really started writing seriously or thinking about what I was writing until maybe the latter part of my high school years, whenever we would have creative papers we had to write. Still I just wanted to get a good grade and they weren't too harsh on grading so it wasn't - I guess I didn't put all of my effort into it. I guess just recently I've started, this semester I've started kind of looking at my style and trying to establish how I write and how I do writing how I make it sound on paper and trying to just distinguish myself from other people and really writing for myself and writing what I want people to know instead of trying to think about what people might want to read, just writing for myself and what I know. Some people don't like it but the thing is that's not my problem and somebody will like it. There will be an audience that will appreciate it.