Arabelle Akinfe

I've come to realise that I may have reached my peak. Well, my writing peak. See when I blogged every day I truly think I was a better writer. I was writing for myself (and the few annoying people that chose to read it in secondary school). Now I feel like I have so much pressure to be good at writing and I suck at it. Especially now that my university lecturer in journalism has made it mandatory for us to write a blog. See, when someone makes something mandatory, you do not want to do. I probably wouldn't even be able to write this blog post without Grammarly. It's like somehow along the way I forgot how grammar and spelling worked and now Grammarly is highlighting every word I write. This is probably an issue for most of Generation Z. With our iPhones autocorrecting everything we write, what's the point of writing something well.  After reading an old review Tavi Gevinson did on the book 'The Virgin Suicides', it's inspired me to start writing again. It...