English Class

What makes a good writer? For one hour five days a week we sit in a small, warm classroom, hoping against hope we actually get to read an inspiring novel about humanity, or love, or nature, or war. Something, anything would be better than the small texts that teach us about annotation and grammar. Anything would be better than the small texts we read on our screens every second of the day, seven days a week. Hashtags and emoticons and exerpts from a novel of my teacher's choosing are taking over. Social media and boring print-outs are taking over, sure, but at least some of us still care. We care about good writing. We care about inspiring novels, we aspire to be incredible authors that make a difference, we connect with the characters in stories, and even though we take part in social media, and grammar packets in a warm engilsh classroom, we care about good writing. So, what makes a good writer? Someone who fights the norms of society and reads paperback books. Someone who reads fanfiction, someone who publishes poems on writing websites. A good writer is someone who falls in love with the art of writing, and wants to share that love with the world. A good writer is someone who is willing to sit in a warm, dark classroom 5 days a week, hoping against hope they read an inspiring novel.