Notes
#meetthewriter Catalyst: What made you start writing?
My interest and passion for writing began to bloom when I was in grade six. Our teacher gave us frequent writing assignments, starting perhaps with a few select words or a topic that we’d then have to develop into a story. I’d always make up long storylines in my head, and then just have time to write a fragment of what I’d envisioned. As such, my stories didn’t always have endings per say, but that was okay. Our teacher didn’t critique this writing, she just made sure we had written something - a wonderful way to encourage young writers.
In a previous post (below), I wrote about how, around this time as well, my interest in horses (and photographic calendars of horses) played a big part in sparking my imagination and story telling. Mostly of these stories stayed in my head, but some I wrote down, particularly as I got a bit older.
I also began keeping a regular diary a around grade six or seven, often writing down in detail what I did in the riding lessons I’d begun taking, or about other daily events that I felt were important.
And of course, I can’t fail to mention my love of reading as a child, which was also a catalyst. Novels or non-fiction about horses, dogs, and cats, as well as classics like the Little House on the Prairie series were my go to. I’d often be found walking around the house, or curled up on the couch with my nose in a book.
I’m pleased to say that I have had one short story published (about a girl with a unicorn poster on her bedroom wall and the unicorn becomes real one night) which I know for certain had its roots established in my childhood imagination.
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