MY GIRL- BUGHEAD

CHAPTER 10

Betty's POV

Turns out, that everyone wrote something. And some of them are actually okay. But they're using slang and more stuff like that. It annoys me.

"Forsythe Pendelton Jones the third," the teacher says, after Polly just read us hers, what was a few sentences. Everyone did short ones. Like really short...

Jug kisses my lips for a second and goes in the front, with his paper that he has never shown me.

The teacher seems hopeful, "How to become a good writer," Jug says and smirks at me and then starts reading his essay.

He use difficult words, but I know all of them. I'm smiling at him the whole time. He's even more amazing than before.

When he finishes it, the whole class is in shock. He looks up and smiles at me. I smile back in amazement. I'm not sure, if his is better than mine. They are so different, but both so good.

He hands it to the teacher and walks back to me. He sits down.

"That was amazing," I say.

He chuckles and pecks my lips, "Elizabeth Cooper," the teacher says.

"By the way, I wanna read your books," he says and kisses me again and then I sigh while standing up.

I go in the front, "How to become a good writer," I say.

"Wait," the teacher says. I sigh and look at her, "Do you have the same one?" she asks and looks at mine and Jug's.

I smirk a little, what I've never done in front of so many people. Toni had the same with Cheryl. I look at them, they're chuckling.

"Okay, good," the teacher says, looking at our first words.

I sigh and take the paper back, "How to become a good writer," I say again.

(A/N. Don't read the essay if you don't want to!)

"Writing and writing continuously makes a writer more and more refined. If you survey the writings of a great writer there may be a marked change from his early writing to his writing in his mature years. You become a better and better painter as you paint more and more pictures and you become a better and better writer as you write more and more.

Besides the regional language writers there are persons writing in English. Even students write poems in English. There are many Indians writing books of essays, biographies and even novels in English. Some novelists writing in English have won world acclaim. Arundhati Roy, an Indian novelist writing in English, has won some national and international awards. There are many novelists writing in English.

Read good books daily and improve your vocabulary. You can have a dictionary by your side and as you come across a new word you can understand its meaning by consulting the dictionary. Never read a book without understanding every word or expression used in it.

If you want to become a writer you can write essays and poems and send them to various newspapers and magazines. They may be rejected initially. But go on writing and sending your articles to the newspapers and magazines. One day your article will be published. You get recognition. Your future articles may be considered for publication as you have already gained recognition. Perseverance pays.

An actor, a painter, a writer or a businessman knows that he has to make more and more efforts to succeed in life. There is no better way to achieve recognition than to persevere. Today you may be unsuccessful, tomorrow you may be successful. This is the law of life.