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catalysts for writing
catalysts for writing
"Dribble the page with the brilliance of your ballpoint pen." ~ Daniel Beatty in "Knock, Knock"
It was my 7th grade teacher who first told me I was a poet, though my mom had been calling me a writer for years. I spend a lot of time writing in a green spiral notebook. Like my son, my favorite color as a child was green. I copied down my favorite quotes and poems in careful handwriting, savoring their images and words and wisdom, just as I'd seen my mother and grandmother do, before you could get anything you wanted on the interwebs. Though the notebook is long gone, I still have the poems my 7th grade teacher wrote on, validating my mother's prediction that I was, indeed, a writer. I have poured out my heart in poetry since I was a child, dribbling the pages with the all the brilliance I can muster from my Pilot G-2 pen. The brilliance is not always evident in the content, but the act of writing daily polishes the gems embedded in the writing to a brilliant sheen.
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