Did you know that 4.76 million people 6 years or older do gymnastics in the U.S? Well, I happen to be one of those people, and for my feature article I decided to write about gymnastics. In this blog post, I am going to tell you something I enjoyed about writing my feature article, what I didn’t enjoy about writing my feature article, what I liked about formatting my feature article, and what I didn’t like about formatting my feature article.

Over the past few weeks of writing my feature article I have noticed that there were things that I did and didn’t like about it. One thing that I enjoyed about writing my feature article was that I knew a lot about my topic so it was exciting to write. One thing I didn’t like about writing my feature article was that I write so much sometimes that it gets too long and boring. First, let’s talk about what I enjoyed! I enjoyed writing about a topic I knew a lot about because it felt really good to get all of my thoughts and facts out on paper. All of the years I had written expert books and narratives about gymnastics lead up to this. I did use a little bit of research, but for the most part it all came from me. Once I got all of my thoughts down it felt like I took a big sigh of relief. As a competitive gymnast, learning even more while I was writing was very interesting to me because it helped me understand some things about scoring, deductions, and requirements for my level. Going into the competition season I am glad that I now know these things. Moving onto what I didn’t like about writing my feature article was that sometimes I get too carried away. I love to write. I could write for days and days and still have more to write. That was the problem. Usually expanding on writing is really good but when you write too much it feels like it’s never ending. I always felt like I was never done writing and it took me a while to write it. Then I fell behind and it was hard to catch up rather than if I had just written less. Also when a reader reads my feature article they will get bored within the first 2 sections.

While we were formatting there were things that I enjoyed and things that I didn’t enjoy so much. One thing that I enjoyed about formatting my feature article was getting to choose the different ways I can arrange the boxes. One thing that I didn’t enjoy so much was having to make sure everything aligned with everything. Starting with what I enjoyed, I really enjoyed being able to make my own set up arrangements. I enjoyed this because it felt like I had more freedom. There were so many different ways to format my article and I felt like I had more control because I got to choose how it looked. I also got to make up new ways to format it so that mine has my own twist to it. One thing that I didn’t enjoy so much about formatting my feature article was having to make sure that all of my words were aligned and all of the boxes were perfect. I wish I could have just pasted it in and not had to worry about the words overlapping and having it go to the next page. It’s just a pain to start from page 1 and move everything down a page, then, to notice that there’s another tiny problem and have to move everything down again.

Now you know what I enjoyed about writing my feature article, what I didn’t enjoy about writing my feature article, what I liked about formatting my feature article, and what I didn’t like about formatting my feature article. Now, would you write a feature article?