You do not need to know how to write to write your first story
Even a young child can write a story if there is a typewriter
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I was about six years old. I could read well at that time but I could not write. My grandfather had a mechanical typewriter and I was allowed to use it. It was like a quest each time to find a needed letter on the keyboard! And one day I read a pictured book about large cats: lion, tiger, lynx, and others.
Well, I liked the book, I liked the cats, and I wrote a story about them. Unfortunately, I do not have this story under my eyes now, but it was about Panther and Lion and their family: each time Lion went hunting and then returned home he found a new child near his wife, and each time it was of different species: leopard, jaguar, lynx... I can imagine now how the story looked liked from the adult's point of view, but it had nothing like this in it. I just tried to imagine beautiful loving and large family (both in words of children amount and cats' size) and mention as many types of cats as I knew so far.
Since then I have had different writing experience. I wrote verses as many fifteen years old girls, I earned money as an observer of computer games in magazine, from time to time when I write long posts on Facebook I get reactions like "you can write well" from people who mainly do not know about my writing past. But I never thought that I would ever write in English (as it is not my first language). But I started to do it here: on Vocal. I started to do it just for myself: to get distraction by participating in challenges, and to see where my mind can bring me by writing on different topics. And to some of my friends really liked those writings.
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Comments (10)
Beautiful! Also reminds me of the old-fashioned typewriter my mother let me use as a child. It was so much fun to punch the keys, at the same time being careful not to miss and plunge my little finger down in between the metal arms.
Great..🌷 thanks for sharing..
Fabulous story!!! Congratulations on Top Story!!!💕❤️❤️
This is wonderful! I would like to see you rewrite that story now. Well done and congrats on the Top Story
I think there is something quite beautiful about a child loving something and choosing to write about it!
Very cool, Olga. I love how we're drawn to writing :)
I'm bookmarking this to revisit later - well done on your Top Story 😁
I think you should rewrite your first childhood story about the big cats as you can remember and publish it on here, that story sounds a fascinating read 📖 you wrote it back then, lost it, grew up. Time to write it again ❤️
Thanks for your encouragement. I have always wanted to write, but fear always prevailed.
I'm always so impressed by being able to write in other languages, well done!