You might find this odd, but I decided to write a novel. Remember back in 2000 in the UK, schools didn’t focus much on spelling and grammar. In English classes, they were only 5% of our final grade. So, you could still do well even with lots of mistakes!
When I started working, I realized this was a problem. Luckily, I wasn’t the only one. Many of us had the same issues, and our bosses were not happy with how we wrote. It didn’t really hit me until later, when I saw my old emails and compared them to others’.
It was also clear that my partner, who learned English as a second language, knew more words and wrote better than me. So, I set a goal to write a novel of over 100,000 words. This was to help me remember what I learned in school and improve my writing skills. I focused on things like starting new paragraphs and building good sentences. It seems to have worked because no one who’s read my book has complained about my English yet!
My writing journey . . . 
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