Here is Happiness's response [sic]:
When I was choosing classes for my schedule last year for the eleventh grade, I was stuck on choosing one more class. I felt the pressure of my counselor's eyes beaming down on me as I tried to rummage through the list of available classes. Eventually, my eyes made contact with one of the electives that read "Creative Writing." I knew three things at that moment: I needed one more class, I like to write, this class will probably help me become better at writing (since I was taking AP Language), and I needed a "cushioned" class to be in that will not be difficult since I was already taking on three AP classes.
Being in Creative Writing really made me think outside the box. I have always written short stories, essays, and poems before on my free time, but actually having a class where I can express my true abilities, I could not let that opportunity slide. It's inevitable that I will only continue writing after being in this class.
This class makes me want to continue writing because I felt free writing anything I wanted under any genre and I want to continue to experience that freedom. I never got judged for what I wrote about and definitely did not receive carping remarks from grammar-happy, rhetoric-happy language teachers. It was just me, my imagination, and my pencil. The thrill of writing fiction or poems without any restrictions really motivated me to keep writing beyond this class as well as school.
The value of writing impacts people with ambivalence, but positively. Writing is not everybody's strength, but when one is allowed to write how they feel, the value becomes priceless. Whether one is writing a journal, poem, short story, or an essay, the value of writing beholds speciality in everybody's life. People will always have something to put down on paper.
To conclude this essay and this class, every ounce of information that I was taught in here, I will use it for life. The freedom of expressing myself through writing really helped me to ensure that I continue to be the best writer that I can be through school, life, and beyond.
