Don't let anybody dull your sparkle!

 I thought that this quote was not only appropriate for your life, but also for writing.  You need to be an individual and you shouldn't care what other people think about you or let people put you down (dull your sparkle).  I always hated when we had to peer edit papers because I thought that people are going to judge what I wrote or think that i'm dumb for having bad grammar.  But I had to stop thinking like that.  I shouldn't care what other people think about my writing because they are my ideas and it shouldn't matter what others think.  Last semester, Lacy wanted me to play around and be more creative with my writing and I was really hesitant at first because I didn't want to sound stupid and I didn't think that I was very creative.  As the semester went on I stepped more and more out of the box and I really began to enjoy writing more.  I didn't feel dumb and I knew that nobody was going to dull my sparkle because I knew that what I was writing was good enough.  I think that everybody needs to start thinking in that way because they will have much more effective writing.