A Thousand Words and More: My First Writing Memory

A Thousand Words and More: My First Writing Memory:

sambmyers:

I think my first writing memory is of writing bad poetry on my grandfather’s computer. I would choose any topic from the color green to however I was feeling at the moment. It was a chance to express all the things that were contained in my imagination and some feelings that I didn’t even know I had. 

I would write a new poem, print it (my grandfather was the only one I knew with a non-dot matrix printer at the time), and then run over and show it to him. He would read it and tell me how good it was, and then he would encourage me to keep writing.

It was a chance to connect with him and a way for me to realize all the feelings I was having myself. I was dealing with all my feelings around being adopted, the only Asian kid in a white class, a kid with no friends, and a kid who felt like no one really cared. In those moments, I knew my grandfather cared. 

Writing Matters. 

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