Learning to Write

Writing equals penmanship

Writing ideas, facts, stories in

a sentence

an essay

a poem

a book 

is a very different subject.

I learned penmanship in school

from printing big rounded letters 

to learning cursive lettering

in wide lined notebooks

In school, I also wrote 

sentences

essays

and read 

poetry

story 

history

In the land of higher education, I read books written 

academically

clinically

poetically

Now I want to write mstories and poems with

better grammar

clearer images

one metaphor at a time

So I gathered together

a ‘curricula’

and home studied from 

the wisdom of authors.

I set my own time table

Went to classes - composed of work shops

Listened to interviews with authors.

My shifting nursing career is now about more than 

blood pressures

clinical assessments

interdisciplinary communication.

My nursing career provides a wealth of 

essays

stories

poems

to write.

“Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep 

interested in your own career, however humble; it is 

a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

~ Max Ehrman