I am privileged today to be sharing some insights I’ve gained while writing my memoir on Clara Freeman’s blog, Clara54’s Weblog. I hope you’ll take the time to visit me there.

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For most of my life, I wanted to write. Words on paper fascinated me even as a child. Writing exercises in first grade were fun!

My dad was a printer and publisher. I could smell the paper and ink on his skin each evening as he came home. He began teaching me some of the tools of the trade when my age reached double digits. Proofreading and editing became my holiday money-making gambit.

In high school and college, research papers became “writing” on a larger scale. I thrived on those assignments. I loved the search for the best material to prove my point, or the sentence or phrase to place my professor in awe of my writing abilities. I knew I wanted to write something bigger though – a book, something between covers, something others read.

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