[Excerpted and reformatted five paragraphs of a guest essay; cut words to meet this site’s 300 word limit]
Hello fellow humans! Do you know why writing is so important in our everyday lives?
(1) Writing can save lives….you can spell out “help” if needed. People will see this message and rush to help you.
(2) You can get clues on a criminal. Someone [can write] down what the criminal looked like or did. This can help people track them down.
(3) You can write down….your address, where you put your keys, etc….If you write down your location….you will be safer because if you get lost, people will know where you went and come and get you.
(4) Expressing yourself [lets] out your feelings on paper.
(5) Write letters to other people about serious stuff instead of telling them because it’s easier and much less awkward….If you have a crush on someone, you could hand them a note saying that you like them….It is much less awkward if you get rejected.
(6) You can write a family recipe….expressing your family history.
(7) Many people can’t talk….so they have to write things down.
(8) Sometimes [written] words are simply easier to understand. Some people would rather read instructions than have someone explain it to them. That is totally [okay]. You can read [words] repeatedly….If you don’t understand [them] the first time, you can just re-read.
That’s all for now but I will see you in the next 5 paragraph essay. But tell me….what do YOU think about writing?
Zofia (Grade 4 Essay)
[I wish I had learned all of these tips in elementary school. Maybe it would have helped me get notes from fourth grade girls telling me they liked me.]
Suicide Squeeze 
Some sage wisdom from this padawan, however, I am not sure it would have helped you get more notes from fourth grade girls. Just saying! Well edited, my friend!
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I think the fourth grade girls were put off by all the scotch tape holding my glasses together. The eighth grade girls did not think I bathed enough but when I corrected that, it did not seem to help.
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School girls are so fickle, my friend!
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She writes better, more direct, than 97% of the internet content hacks and 99.8% of the Indie publishing on any of the online platforms. If she learns to parse literature by 8th grade and picks up even a modest ability to play a musical instrument she’ll be dangerous. I particularly liked her take on instructions and looking for information in the written word. That’s real mind work.
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She better keep learning to write because she has no interest or aptitude for Math.
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Good for her!
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Unfortunate that the 4th grade girls missed out on nice notes from you. 🙂
What do I think of writing? I think that I would be in very sad shape if I broke my hand and couldn’t write. Would greatly miss it!
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Your writing definitely expresses how much you love it
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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I send a girl a Valentine’s Day card in High School, and I was ridiculed for doing that.
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I can definitely relate!
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A comprehensive list! A few things made me laugh. Yes, writing is so important! 👍🏻
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Zofia chose her topic from a list of 20 so she definitely feels strongly about it.
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Research, write, edit. It would be good if more writers researched in the beginning and edited at the end.
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I get lazy about research and tend to make stuff up but no good excuse exists for skipping a rigorous editing!
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The doctor told my wife and I that as we get older and forget things, we should write down what we are going to do so we will remember.
So the other day, while watching tv, I told my wife I was going into the kitchen to get a ham sandwich. She asked for some potato salad and juice from the fridge, and I said, “No problem.”
She also said I should write it down so I would not forget.
I said, “That’s silly. I can remember potato salad and juice.”
About ten minutes later, she called out, “Are you still in the kitchen?”
As I walked back with some cherries and soda, I said, “Yes, I’ve got what I went for.”
She said, “Where’s my saltines and cottage cheese?” 😂
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🤣That is a funny standalone Blog post.
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Writing enriches the writer. (Sounds pretentious? Oh well, edit it out!)
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Love it. I would not edit it out even if it were pretentious.
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Zofia has a future as a thoughtful writer and a perceptive young woman.
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A high compliment coming from a professional like you!
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Wrytin iz good, cuz it meanz you donnt haf to spel everyting write! 🙂
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You need to turn spellchecker on, Rory!
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It’s very practical advice. 🙂
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And I need all the advice I can get, even when it comes from unlikely sources!
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and it’s so important for me because I have to write lots of lists of things to buy and get done and then leave them at home.
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I forget to take my lists to the store so often that I make lists saying, “Remember to take your list.”
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yep.
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👌🤣
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A 4th-grade philosopher! Your grandchild is more perceptive than most 4th-graders.
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I am always amazed how fast young children grow up these days.
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Did you see the things she used called “paragraphs?” Wasn’t that interesting and clever?
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By fourth grade the kids at Zofia’s school are very well trained in the five paragraph essay format: the introduction of their thesis, three good reasons, and the summation. They are way ahead of me already.
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Dear Zofia, I think writing is really neat. Hugs & Blessings from a new friend who is working hard on your #4. 😊
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By happenstance, Zofia was over on Memorial Day and was absolutely thrilled to read all the responses.
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I think you’ve discovered a writing exercise that could benefit many. Simple but effective. Kids are way ahead of us. Good luck to Zofia. May she share more wisdoms. 🙂
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I am grooming Zofia to take over my Blog as I slow down!
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Haha. A well selected successor. 🙂
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Our ancestors took so many millennia to invent the things we take for granted because they forgot to invent writing first. Ideas were lost or misunderstood over and over again. Passing explanations of nuclear fission through songs round the camp fire just didn’t work.
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Very astute observation!
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😂
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Some excellent observations. She appears to exhibit far too little attitude to include items like “Writing is important because without Writing there would be no airplaning just like without Fording there would be no driving.
I would love to repeat elementary school with my current aging grump attitude. At least if I was guaranteed to pass.
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The Math gets very difficult by the end of fourth grade….
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A+ for Zofia🤣👍💯
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I clearly don’t take enough care when writing down recipes. I want them to express my family history. I have some editing to do, I think.
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Some of the ingredients in our family recipes do not mix well.
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Zofia writes wonderfully and I am quite convinced of the importance of writing now, although I had my doubts before. I especially echo with the one about shy people–if one is shy, one would opt for writing rather than speaking. And probably shy people invented writing in the first place…
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I never considered that shy people may have given impetus to the development of writing! An interesting thought.
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