Childhood Writing
March 19th, 2008 Posted in TammiWhen did your passion for writing begin?
I think that I’ve always been a writer. When I was very small, I used to scribble in books, pretending that I was creating a story. Some of my childhood ideas are still present in my memory.
Writing was always closely linked to drawing when I was a child. Drawing still helps me write. My first book was a story about the four seasons and four fairies that represented them. I think I was eight years old when I wrote it. The paper book is long gone but I remember working on it for quite awhile.
One of my favorite writings from childhood is “Like the Evergreens” about a tree that wants to stay green throughout the year. The tree desperately holds on to his leaves by increasing his production of chlorophyll. This works for awhile but the process leads to the tree’s demise. I was in fifth grade when I wrote the poem. I don’t have the original or any reproductions of it but I remember it very well.
Do you remember your first writings? What were the topics? Do you think that you could bring your childhood writing back to life?
5 Responses to “Childhood Writing”
By Jeff on Mar 19, 2008
Hello Tammi,
I really enjoyed your article today because I could really relate to what you were talking about. Not so much about the details of writing as a child but the thoughts and dreams of youth.
I can’t Thank you enough for writing about this topic today as you have made my day by giving me something to write about in my Passion for Writing.
Enjoy Life!
By Mar-G on Mar 19, 2008
My childhood was filled with writings. But back then I enjoyed drawing too. The first writings were imaginary conversations with my imaginary friends, mostly with Gabriel who has been with me longer than I could remember. ‘He’ was always there for me and is well alive till now. He seems and feels so real, much to the extent of being another human. Of course, I know he isn’t. But he’s still around.
By heather on Mar 19, 2008
my first foray into writing also included a little illustration — it was a self-published paper called “good mews”, and focussed on feline activity in our neighborhood, along with fictional news about heathcliff and garfield. creative journalism. =)
By Thesis Writing on Mar 20, 2008
You provided a great info regarding childhood writing, i appreciate your way of thinking and way of writing
By ~beth on Mar 20, 2008
I wrote everywhere and on everything as a child … ask my parents who had to repaint walls and refinish furniture. My first ‘published’ work was a rather now mortifying piece on Charlie Brown’s dog Snoopy (complete with illustration) in an elementary school yearbook.