Paul
Writing/English Composition Tutor
My interest in writing began in second grade, when I wrote my first story at age 8. Even then, my writing needed little correction; I appeared to have absorbed the conventions of usage, grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization almost without thinking. I continued to write short stories through fourth grade, but it was for my fifth-grade teacher that I wrote, while in sixth grade, what I called my first novel—a longer story than I had ever written, complete with more than 10 chapters ...