So I just wanted to say if you read my articles thank you. They aren’t the best and I am by no means a good reporter but I tried my hardest. I wanted to use this article to explain how much this has helped me and while I had to pull some late nights because I’m bad at time management and deadlines, it was an amazing opportunity. So thank you to Diana Jarvis who (I think) runs the Young Reporter program, and thanks to Mr Cox for being the person in the school who helped organise it in our school. So I actually wrote a couple things a while ago (I’m not sharing yet if you want to read cause you actually read my articles there’s a writing project for young people called The Litmus run by the writer Ali Smith who I had the pleasure of meeting last week) and for a year or so I had a writing block but the Young Reporters programme helped me get over my block.

It helped me figure out a rough style of writing that’s vaguely humorous, vaguely factual and hopefully entertaining. I sometimes struggle to write and I’m not that good at making my own characters so I’ll write stories based off of a universe such as Star Wars or The Grishaverse. And so I’ll make one character or use a character that I’ll kill of quickly.

I’m trying to become a writer and though it might take many years the writers I’ve met (Julian Sedgwick author of Tsunami Girl, Ali smith author of Autumn, and Amelia Gentleman author of The Windrush Betrayal, and one other author who’s name I can’t remember) have said that I have the potential to become a big one and I shouldn’t give up. 

I’m both happy and sad that the program has finished. On one hand, I’ve learnt a lot and my writing skills have improved, on the other it’s one less thing on my plate during my first year of struggling through GCSEs. So…. Thank you Miss Jarvis for helping with articles, thank you to the amazing writers I’ve met and thank you to my parents who have been very patient with me.