Monday, August 31, 2009

SIMPLE WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT.

Today, I have spent the time on the computer, which is not like me at all. For me,computers are very intimidating, a pain, I always get lost in that vast space and it crashes and burns. I press "send" and it does but to who? I love the old way of communicating like writing letters and picking up the phone to talk.
I love paper and pencils and stamps to mail my letters.
Besides that, I'm still trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up and I'm not twenty anymore, so today I used the time to write and that has always been one of my dreams as a little girl.
Where did this dream come from? A teacher, my elementary school teacher.
Simple.
We were asked to write an essay, it had to be at least two pages on anything we wanted, a story of some kind, so I did. It was a fairytale that I don't recall anything about. All I remember was he loved it he was impressed enough to tell me that I should become a writer when I grow up.
Over the years I have wondered about that and deep inside desired to write children's' books. Just a simple little comment and it has stuck with me for all this time.
It has been a day where I have enjoyed the fact that I'm a work in process myself after all these years. I have enjoyed and thrived today because I took the time to expand my horizons. I will always remember and appreciate Mr. Jones for encouraging me a long time ago.

4 comments:

  1. Some teachers do make all the difference in the world, don't they?

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  2. So, tomorrow at 10:00 is critique group. Let's see what you wrote.

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  3. Hi, Meg: I have been thinking about you and I do hope things are going better. I'm looking forward to reading your stories. Hugs from Spain, V.

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  4. You not only are a great writer, you have fantastic penmanship and, prehaps best of sll, are a survivor. Kudos to you, kid.

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