Re-Post with editing of 'Learning to Write'

From 2012:

Writing equals penmanship

Writing ideas, facts, stories in

a sentence, an essay

a poem, or a book 

is a very different subject.

I learned penmanship in school from 

printing big rounded letters 

curling cursive lettering

in wide lined notebooks

In school, I also wrote 

sentences, essays

and read 

poetry, story and history

In the land of higher education, I read books written 

academically

clinically

poetically

I wanted to write my stories 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 class - 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 and 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, from Desiderata