Moments. Blog Week 6!

When I think of an important moment in my writing experience, I think of the first fictional story I ever wrote which was when I was in 7th grade. I had no idea how to write something like this and I just remember sitting in my computer room in our old house and having my mom sitting next to me. I had all of my ideas but I didn’t know how to put them together so she provided me with some assistance. Once I got started though, I was on a roll. It was a story about a little girl named Baylee and she was missing her dad around Christmas time because he was off to war and he couldn’t come home. Then he shows up at their Christmas Eve service at Church. It was a really short story but my teacher loved it. I remember that I included a very large amount of detail and that really made the story come to life. I wrote about the smells of the church with the candles burning and the sound of Baylee’s father’s shoes as they clicked against the floor when he walked in the church. I went through a couple revisions but my teacher was very helpful. The focus for this was not so much on the topic but on the form of the paper and the grammar. This is very different compared to my writing now. I understand how to form the grammar and sentence structure but instead I aim my attention so much more on what I am writing about. For my first short story, this was a great experience. I know that after this, writing became something that I loved and was encouraged to do. It wasn’t a bother but more something that I could express myself in. I really owe it to my 7th grade English teacher to opening this door for me.