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Personal Narrative: My Aspirations As A Writer
I am writing this quick letter to introduce myself and tell you a bit about my accomplishments and aspirations as a writer. I won't say that writing is in my blood or my genes or anything like that, but I will say that I do have an insatiable urge to write. I cannot say, but I definitely feel that writing is a passion of mine that I greatly enjoy. It is an urge that can only be satisfied and, even then, only temporarily, by stringing words together into a narrative. Ultimately, I greatly enjoy writing, although I do not consider myself to be stellar at it; I would call it a passion more than anything else.

My strengths are a writer derive from my enthusiasm for writing. I think that part of my abilities stem from my love for writing, because I actually want to hone my skills and perfect my craft. Were there a church where I could mount the pulpit and preach on my feelings about writing, I would be up there doing it. I have said that this is something I must do, and it is true, but as the .love you feel in your heart and your soul for what you are doing reflects in the quality of what you do. Thus, a baker who kneads dough with love in his heart makes a far better loaf than one who dreads what he does, just as a plumber who loves plumbing
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He had nothing to gain from so doing, but he felt compelled to do it because as I writer, I spoke to him, as a reader and he felt that what I wrote was truly meaningful to him and his situation. That was the turning point in my career: before that I thought about being a writer but after that, I had to become a writer. The challenge is to measure up to that person's expectations, to do it again and again and again, not so it becomes mechanical, but so people will actually wake up in the morning and look forward to reading whatever I have to say, whether it is about the price of popcorn or the more pressing issues of the

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