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Leslie Lozada
3 min readApr 4, 2019

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Why it is better to have backups when it comes to writing

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As someone who had been a fan of reading and writing for almost their entire life, I always tend to write in the strangest of places.

When I was younger, I had a lot of loose leaf paper around the house as the school list from my elementary school said to bring those extra papers that aren’t in the notebooks, college ruled. I wrote a lot in those pages that, eventually I had to buy a binder, the big one, in order to fit what I had to make some sense out of it. When I was trying to write a book from that age, I even had character sheets, with the added detail of trying to draw the characters I’ve had in my head. All of them having similar head proportions and stiff bodies.

If it wasn't that, I've had a journal book to write my stories, or, well, trying to rewrite an episode I've seen and try to make it into a story. That one filled up in about 3 months, so I went on to get another book to write in.

Over the years, I’ve used; napkins from restaurants, writing on the edge on the newspaper on the white areas, used sheets from my grandfather’s empty business orders. And the places I’ve written from weren’t any stranger.

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Leslie Lozada
Leslie Lozada

Written by Leslie Lozada

A writer from the tender age of 10. Writer, editor for Medium and Editor In Chief of NEIU’s Independent. Connection: https://linktr.ee/theLeslieLozada

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