My favortie author is Stephen King and I love his writing technique. He uses lots of colorful vocabulary and uses tricks to really immerse his reader into the world he creates. So, if I could interview anyone to help with my writing it would be none other than Stephen King. For tennis, I really admire Caroline Wozniacki. Or however you spell her name. But she is a very good female player but she works very hard at her game. I have a quote from her, “When I was eight years old, I would play for two hours a day because I wanted to get better.” So if i could interview someone for tennis it would be Caroline Wozniacki. Or Roger Federer just because he’s awesome.

So for tennis there are a lot of things one could buy, but really they don’t improve your game very much. They are simply accessories that may affect speed of something minor of that sort but it really won’t do very much of a difference. For example, the difference between a specifically designed tennis shirt and a regular t-shirt is that with the tennis shirt, you get less sweaty. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t buy the tennis gear. It’s just something to think about. Anyway. I would like to buy a pair of specifically tennis shoes, another racket, one of those fancy tennis bags that hold multiple rackets (they look cool) a 50 pack of tubes of tennis balls, and of course a tennis club with at least eight courts and a pool with a waterslide. The tennis club would definately be the most helpful to my playing, especially if I could knock down the neighboring houses and build it there.

For writing, the only thing I could think of that I would need to purchase to improve myself would be a laptop. Other than that I have pretty much everything I need.

In my case, it’s much easier to receive help with tennis than it is to receive help with writing. For tennis, almost all my friends (or at least my very close friends) play tennis and so it’s quite easy for me to find someone to play with. I take lessons with my friends and challenge others if I need a new opponent. Every Wednesday I have an hour and a half of court time with my dad and that helps my match play. If we are both free for an hour, we’ll go play then too. For writing, it’s much harder to get help because it is mostly a self-learned thing. I get editing help ( and grammar help) from my Language Arts teacher but she also gives me ideas and new genres I can attempt to write in. My Reading, Social Studies, and Power of the Pen teachers help me master the different formats of writing that is used when not writing a long story. 

Well….I play tennis three or four times a week. One session is for two hours the rest of the session are for an hour to an hour an a half. All in all, I play tennis for typically six hours a week. If I do not play this much I sometimes feel ill at ease. Something tells me that’s not normal. For writing, it varies greatly. I mostly  only do writing for school assignments such as reading paragraphs, social studies essays, leadership goals, science summaries, and especially stories in language arts. Occasionally, if I get really excited about a writing topic, I’ll write more than one piece just for fun or experience. Or I’ll participate in an extra writing contest. Or submit more than one piece to a writing competition. So I am quite quite involved in both my passions. Yeah. The end.  <== This is where I normally play tennis

 and this has been my favorite writing competition so far….yup.

I actually know many people who share my passion/passions. My friend Julia is as obsessed with tennis as I am, we play together whenever we get the chance, and many of my school friends are as well such as Vinny, AJ, Shan, Pheby, and William.  I have one friend who is passionate about both writing and tennis, and we certainly never run out of things to talk about. My friends Naomi, Joan, Mathmonster, Clive, Hannah, and Trevor are all talented writers who love the activity. Many of them, as well as myself have placed well in various writing contests.

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Now, I have been asked to describe when I realized this was my passion. Once again, I’d like to enforce the fact that I still have no idea what my actual passion is. I’m basing this off of what I posted last week.

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I guess I realized both of my “passions” last year (7th grade). Actually, I fell in love with tennis in 6th grade though I had been playing it for years. Something about my  game just clicked and suddenly I couldn’t resist getting to the courts whenever I was asked to play. Seventh grade, I began playing my father in matches and by the start of 8th grade I was going out of my way to make court time every day. The more I played the more I WANTED to play, and here I am. Writing really came out last year and during the summer of sixth grade after participating in a competition called Future Problem Solving. I won some writing contests and before I knew it I had looked around and saw, hey I’m a good writer. Then I got really into it and would take notes when I was reading and as I was observing my surroundings.

This week, we have been asked by our teacher to blog about our “passion”. Before I start, I would like to make one point. I am only 13 years old and still have no idea what my true passion will turn out to be, so I’m simply going to talk about the things that I believe might have potential in my future.

Currently, I am completely obsessed with playing tennis. I have a red, black, and white Babolat sweet-spot (that’s my racket) that can almost be defined as my best friend. Frequently, I find myself carrying it around just in case the chance to get in a set or two in arises. You never know when you’ll come across a court. I’ve been playing since I was very little, I can’t tell you the exact year, but I’m guessing I started when I was between the ages of 4 and 6. At first, it was just something I did. Something that came naturally every week. I didn’t understand that tennis was something to *enjoy* not just perform until I was much older. But when I did realize it, I fell in love with the game. The past two years I have gotten into it more than ever before, perhaps with the daunting experience of highschool coming up I realize that if I want to make a varsity team I need to work harder to become even better than I am. I love donning my pink and neon green “watermelon suit” which is the tennis skirt set that I wear when I play. I’ve realized that pouring sweat is one of the best feelings in the world as long as you are focusing all your strength on a circular point on your racket face and have a tennis ball in your hand.

The second thing that could count as my passion would be writing. Turns out, I’m pretty good at it. Writing is taking all the mixed up jumble that forms in my creative mind and channeling it into a comprehensible flow that is satisfying both to me and to my reader. A story is your own private world that you can shape in any grotesque, obscene, or utopian society that you like. It’s almost amazing to have that much power. You create people with lives and interests, towns with histories and futures, countries with amazing potential. They can inspire millions. Think about this: J.K. Rowling. Is it possible to not know this name, or the characters associated with her such as Hermoine Granger, Ron Weasly, and Harry Potter? This saga was the creation of a *writer* on a piece of paper. A magical legend that inspired movies, more books, short videos, and even a theme park. Writing has powers. Writers harness that power. On the other hand, writers are paid to lie. They sit down and pull fantasies and whims out of their head. Perhaps this is even the reason why writing (and reading) is so popular. People love to escape into a world, or life, that is different, and sometimes better, than their own.

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