My First Yearbook Article

          In seventh grade I joined the yearbook at club at my middle school and continued working on the yearbook until my senior year of high school. I remember freshman year being the most nerve-wracking. It was my first assignment of the year and I had to submit an article all about the different fashion trends. I worked so hard interviewing students from every grade, even the intimidating seniors.
           I decided to working really hard on the writing process of this essay. I planned so much and drafted so many copies. I tried to write in a way in which every student could relate to. The fashion trends fit every clique in the book from the goths to the plastics. The sentence structure flowed to make the whole article easy to read and the word choice was very high-school appropriate. My editor checked and revised my paper over and over again until the paper was absolutely flawless.
           How I wrote this essay differed from how I wrote many of my essays in the past. For this paper I actually thought more about what the readers would enjoy rather than what my teacher wanted in a perfect paper. I used my peers thoughts in the paper and made them feel like they actually had a say in what was being put into the yearbook. I quoted the nerds on their pocket protectors and the jocks on their favorite sports team's vintage jersey. Showing people I cared about what they thought made them actually want to read the paper. I got only positive feedback and I'm so happy I worked so hard to make that article perfect. The process of writing the fashion essay made me only love writing more than I did before. It showed me that I can actually affect the way people look at something by putting all my thoughts down on paper.