This post is part of
Think Kit by SmallBox.
January 29, 2016 prompt:
“Write On: Why do you write? What have you learned by
facing the page? Did anything surprise you about your reflections this past
month?”
I Write Because…
I write because I love to read. As a child, Mama instilled a love for the written
word in me and my Sister. Our tastes in reading material is worlds apart’
however, we love to read. As a child
people always complimented us on our vocabulary and we routinely tested at
higher reading levels and comprehensive skills. I never saw Mama more angry
than when a fourth grade teacher put me in a lower than average reading group because
I didn’t pass a spelling test. The teacher incorrectly said, “You will never be
a good reader because you aren’t a good speller. “ Mama told her to put me in the highest level
reading group. I proceeded to blow the teacher out of the water. The following
year we were in a read at your own pace reading program. I read everything and was
introduced to the most wonderful room in the school. The Library. By the way, my vocabulary and reading comprehension
tested out at the mid-college level even in Junior High.
I write because it’s an easier form of creation and communication
for me. It helps me to clarify my thoughts and focus. I like the order and sense
of writing. Especially with the advent of the computer. In college and High School
I struggled with writing papers. The content was always great. The form was
not. Since most journals require APA style, we were always given the choice. When
I discovered APA style I threw away the MLS manual and never looked back.
During my oral exit exam from my Master’s program one of my instructors on the
panel said, “We noticed about half way through the program your papers changed—the
content has always been great, but the form is where you were marked off. What do
you attribute that change to?” Without a heartbeat I told them. I finally had
access to a computer. Before that time, I had manually typed on a type writer.
Every time I found a typo or a misspelled word, or realized the flow was off, I
had to retype the page. After retyping
the page 17 times, I stopped caring and turned the papers in w/typos. To this day my favorite computer aides are:
spell check and cut and paste.
I write because my friends encourage me. I love to hear their praise about a funny story,
or that they have passed my words of “wisdom” on to their kids or friends. It doesn't get any better than that for me, but even if no one ever read anything I wrote, I would still write because....
I write because it makes me happy.
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