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=My Writing - The Creed of the English Classroom=

This is my writing.

There are many like it, but this one is MINE.

My writing is my best friend. It is my life.

I must master it as I must master my life.

My writing without me is useless. Without my writing, I am useless.

I must make my writing true.

I must write straighter than my enemy who is trying to out-write me.

I must write to him before he writes to me. I will...

My writing and myself know that what counts in literature is not the words we fire,

the noise of our bursts, nor the smoke we make.

We know it is the adjectives that count. We will describe...

My writing is human, even as I, because it is my life.

Thus, I will learn it as a brother.

I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories, its sights, and its barrel.

I will ever guard it against the ravages of bad spelling and poor grammar.

I will keep my writing clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready.

We will become part of each other. We will...

Before God I swear this creed.

My writing and myself are the defenders of my language.

We are the masters of our pages.

We are the saviors of my life.

So be it, until there is no enemy, but a blank page.

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