Sophomore and Feature Editor Uzoamaka Onuorah joined “The Rosette” Newspaper because she desired an outlet for her love of writing, to be around good people, and so she could make the most of high school by joining an organization. When she’s not stressing over all the academically challenging classes she chose for herself, she can be found writing, reading books, listening to music, eating sweet treats, reading fics late into the night, crying to her favorite movies and TV shows, and giggling with her friends (she may be really shy at first, but get her in a room with them, and you’ll wish she’d be quiet). Her future aspirations are to become salutatorian and get into a top nursing school, publish a book or 5, and find a cutie to marry and have 3 kids with. She nearly crashed out last year trying to leave Horn (we don’t talk about it, though…), but with the help of the sweetest Sidhu, she was convinced to stay, and now she’s so glad she did, or else she wouldn’t have met all the beautiful friends she has now. For her first year with “The Rosette” she hopes to challenge herself with writing new things and exploring new ideas within her writing. She’s very excited for this year and what the future holds with her staff!
Nailed down to her book : A closer look into Onurah´s mind
Reported by: Dailiene Luna
Reading nonstop and flipping page by page, she is lost in her own fantasy world drowned in millions of letters and keeps herself away from the real world. She spends most of her time soaking up stories from books and tales making her want to tell stories of her own through her writing.
Sophomore Uzo Onuorah has had a strong passion for reading and writing ever since she was young.
“My parents have banned me from going to the library,” Onurah said. “They tell me I have too many books and that I need to read first. I assure them that I’m going to read them all if they just let me get another one.”
From the back of her head, a special book of Onuorah’s refreshed her memory on why she enjoyed reading so much, which has kept her stuck onto literature like a piece of chewed gum onto a heel of a shoe.
“I recently read a book that made me re-fall in love with reading,” Onuorah said. “The book Legendborn by Tracy Deonn is about a Black girl who lives in North Carolina and starts noticing these weird monsters around her and fantastical things. The main character felt so real, and I loved it so much I can’t even describe it. There was good romance, good characters, good writing, good plot and it reminded me this is why I love writing.”
Though writing is an escape for Uzo, she isn’t immune to struggles, some symptoms she gets are mental blocks and low motivation.
“I write for the #TeenWritersProject blog, and recently I struggled articulating my ideas,” Onuorah said. “I wanted to give up, but I knew I was eventually going to get paid, that’s what kept me from dropping it. Whenever I get stuck while writing for pleasure, I remind myself that others might gain from reading my words. Knowing that I will be able to say something and feel heard helps me overcome any mental blocks.”
With literature being involved in her life so often, Onuorah has thought ahead of her future, visions with goals and objectives she wants to accomplish such as being able to publish and write a story of her own.
“There’s two books I wanna publish, I don’t know which one first,” Onuorah said. “The first one is the fantasy book “The Masquerade.” The masquerade is a secret society with powers and they get to be themselves. The other book that I would like to publish would be titled “Sprinter Hearts.” It’s a romance kinda not, the backstory behind that is that the main character basically has a bit of problems so she can’t love completely. The genre would be fantasy because I love fantasy the most but also the other book would be contemporary like realistic fiction because I feel like it’s a bit easier for me, with fantasy the ideas don’t come out as easily just as writing about everyday people.”
She feels literature has influenced her life in a great way expanding her knowledge on it and giving her the ability to do what she enjoys. Helping her understand herself and helping others.
“It’s impacted my life, in a general way,” Onuorah said. “I have a bigger vocabulary and I’m also really good at seeing grammar mistakes. That’s what made me wanna do my job because I can edit other people’s stories. It also made me understand more things about myself like reading books where the main characters are going through similar problems and it helped me work out those feelings to try and be a better person.”
