Inspiring Youth: The Prairie Meadows Scholarship

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Inspiring Youth “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing” said by Benjamin Franklin. I began writing the moment I discovered pencils and notebooks. I would spend my days writing whether I was at school, home, watching a sporting event, or riding in a car. Writing would take me away from the real world to my own fantasy world. The Prairie Meadows scholarship would help me inspire people to create different worlds through writing. When I was younger I would write stories that had no plot towards them, contained random transitions between chapters, many spelling errors, and crazy punctuations. My stories may have contained multiple errors, but something they did contain was creativity. I remember sitting at my desk

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