In the presence of a writer.

"For me writing is exploration; and most of the time, im suprised where it takes me."

There is defintatly something special and powerful about the beautiful, yet mystical, art of writting. Writing has been around since the very begging of time. Without writing we wouldnt know where we came from, we wouldnt have a government, but most of all we wouldnt know who or what we are.

I cant even begin to imagine, what life would be like right now, if writing didnt exist. Like Miguel de Cervantes once said, "the pen is the tongue of the mind." If we wouldnt have developed a way of turning all of our "crazy thoughts" into a form that could follow human kind throughout its existance, we wouldnt have the history we have today, to guide us into the future.

At the beggining of this year, when i found out i was going to be taking a writing class with Doctor Sirias, i really didnt know what to expect. I knew it was most probably going to be nothing like his litarature class last year, where i spent more time sleeping then reading. When i walked into that litarature class last year, i walked in, having no interest what so ever in writing or anything to do with a pen. But, after around a writer like Doctor Sirias for so long, you begin to ask yourself "what is it that made this guy dedicate his life to writing?" And thats when i first started really apreciating the art of writing, and started to realize what writing is really capable of. Like William Zinser said, "writing is thinking on paper."

As we get closer and closer to the end of the year, i honestly feel that after every essay my classmates and i write, gets better and better. And im positive im not the only student that walked into Doctor Sirias class giving a you know what about writing, and is going to walk out as a little writing dragon.