My Writing Skills

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My greatest skill would be my imagination and creativity. I always had an overactive imagination but I never really thought of it as a skill or talent. Over the past few years, I have been focusing on how to take ideas from my mind and translate them onto paper or a screen. I write stories that I post online and my first two were, in my opinion, not very well developed. By the time I had gotten to my third story, I had improved my creative writing skills and was able to make it better than the first two. I would also write short stories, either for my creative writing class or just for fun. My friends would read them and give me positive comments, and I asked them for constructive criticism.
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