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\"A<\/a>

The Little Kitten: <\/em>a book I “wrote” and “illustrated” at a mere 10 years of age.<\/p><\/div>\n

The question from this month’s #IWSG<\/a> newsletter is: What was your very first piece of writing as an aspiring writer? Where is it now? Collecting dust or has it been published?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I say in my bio<\/a>, “I\u2019ve been writing so for as long as I can remember, as long as I could hold a pencil, or pen, or marker.”<\/p>\n

Seriously. I have a full drawer in my file cabinet that is just my writing, or ideas for stories. The first folder is dated 1978, so I was merely seven at the time I wrote those “poems”, and I’ve saved them all these years (almost 40!).<\/p>\n

And… all of it is collecting dust. Well, moldering. In organized files. Because I’m that way. Or I was…<\/p>\n

I had some success in college, and right after, getting my work published, but then I got sucked into my career, and then I turned into a Sick Person<\/a>, and … if you’re a person who notices such things, you’ll notice I haven’t even been blogging. My last post on here was a month ago, for this very reason, the Insecure Writer’s Support Group.<\/p>\n

It’s not that I don’t have things to say or write, it’s just that as a Sick Person, I’m feeling the futility of well, lots of things, writing being one of them.<\/p>\n

And it’s funny, because the word “aspiring” in the question strikes me. I never was “aspiring”. I just… was. Am. A writer.<\/p>\n

I just don’t happen to write at the moment.<\/p>\n

(And no, those early works will never see the published light of day. Because. Bad. Childish. But I’m glad I have them.)<\/p>\n

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