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How To Become A Serious Writer
How My Journey Can Connect You To Yours
Reading and writing are best friends.
A questions I was asked recently was : “ How did I become a serious writer?”
I began to ponder my own process. As a writer who is always learning I study other peoples journeys and rhythms in order to tweek my own.
Early Years
Many I talk to identify themselves as writers from a young age. I am the same. I started writing in elementary school but the idea of taking it seriously is another timeline entirely.
The first memory was when I was 8 or 9 years old. I used to write all the time on the standard school white with the blue lines paper. There is one story I remember writing about the forest and the trees that was in a stack of stories. My cousin was visiting from Germany that summer and read it and made fun of me because I wrote about not being able to see beyond the thick forest of trees. It was good-natured teasing and the story made him laugh even though that was not my intent as a writer. It didn’t discourage my own writing process, but I do not remember sharing my writing much after that incident.
In first grade, I was inspired to be a writer when the older kids came in to share their young authors’ books with our class…
