The Importance Of Writing: Out Of School Writing

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I have not done a lot of writing outside of school and I mainly just read. One thing I do remember writing about was about a video game that I had played. It was a fictional story about a character int he video game going through different events. The writing was pretty basic but it was something that I was proud of. Another out-of-school writing was sort-of a paper that I wrote to help me remember different codes and other helpful things that would assist me when i was writing a code. Out-of-school writing is a lot less stressful than writing I've done at school because there isn't any deadlines or formatting that I have to worry about. With out-of-school writing I can just write about anything I want without stopping a lot and rewriting things

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