The Writing Teacher

Who was your writing teacher in school? Writing is a skill that starts with learning how to hold a pencil or writing instrument. The teacher would go around the room making sure everyone was holding the pencil in the right way whether right-handed or left-handed. We would move on to 'writing' lines (vertical and horizontal, smiles or we called them rockers). After a few weeks of these forms, we moved into learning letters then numbers to cursive writing. The end of the basics and just learning how to combine cursive letters joined together into words and sentences like the old adage 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.' to writing our own stories and thanks to my second-grade teacher and the English teachers since then I thank them to showing me the gift of the written word and the skill of handwriting.

The writing teachers taught me the basics from plot, setting, character, and theme and to make a story fun and interesting for others to read. They even gave me the gift of reading in a different way from the short story to the novel to shorter pieces like newspaper and magazine writing, reviews and even how to write a speech. In teaching writing it is more than just writing words in an interesting way but a way to convey meaning on a subject in your own way. Writing can be a lonesome profession as they told us in class, but it can also be fun. So, let's write what we know.