JUST WRITE! PART TWO

I WANT TO APOLOGIZE FOR PUBLISHING MY LAST POST BEFORE IT WAS READY!  I SUPPOSE I FELL ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH! I PROMISE TO DO BETTER THIS TIME.

I stopped at the place in my life when I became a librarian. I knew right away that this was my profession.  Time passed and soon I found myself in a college library.  I needed a master's degree to be a full fledged college librarian. I attended school in the evenings, driving one hundred miles each way, and lived on campus summer sessions to receive that hard earned graduate degree. I still had not begun to write. I spent my days with books but there didn't seem to be time to give to writlng. 
Years went by and soon I was retired.  I would definitely start that book tomorrow. Then one day something traumatic happened........I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.,  I knew something of the disease since I had an Uncle who had been afflicted with this neurological condition  What I didn't know I soon learned quickly.  One of my most annoying symptoms was not being able to sleep,.I decided to spend those sleepless hours writing.That was more than seven years ago and I'm still writing  see--www.nanturner.org and darlene eichler--writer.  When I'm tempted to skip writing for that day, I remember what advise a co-worker and writer gave me.-----write something everyday even if you never use it.  It might give you new ideas and encourage you to rewrite old ones.  If you write everyday you will soon feel that you cannot go a day without writing, or that's the way I feel.

So, just write-----everyday.  It will become a habit.

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JUST WRITE! PART ONE

Ever since sixth grade I've wanted to write. I've always been blessed or cursed, depending on how you see it, with a lively imagination. I jumped at a chance to spin a tale for a class assignment. More often than not I was rewarded with an A on the paper.  One day my teacher told me that I should become a writer.  Wow! Did my head swell.  I always planned to start that first novel but it didn't happen.  Don't misunderstand, the stories and outline for stories were constantly going around in my brain.  But life got in the way and that is where they stayed.

I finished high school and went on to nurses' training.  Writing skills were important in charting patient information and class assignments.  My life as a student nurse was filled with stories and ideas for them.  There was never time to write them down.My motto became, "someday I'll write everyday.Nothing will deter me.  That day never came.

II did not finis nurses' training for several reasons.  the main one was that I was not cut out to be a nurse. It wasn't the "blood and gore" or the unpleasant tasks one is required to perform.  As a college guidance counselor remarked, "you took your patients home with you."  This would not have worked for very long.  I made the right decision to go into the Liberal Arts . The major in English had room for several electives.  I chose most of mine in Library Science and Religion. It took only a year and a half of teaching fifth grade to send me to the Library.  I had found my niche and I was off and running.