Learning To Write
by Todd Tannehill on 12/29/13The title suggests a remedial course in Writing 101. Not so. "Learning to write" actually means - learning to set time aside each day to write. Writing goes hand in hand with reading; two better skills I know not.
We live in a TV, text, email, YouTube world where "Are you okay" has been replaced with "RUOK?" It took me a while to get everything my daughter, Emma, was texting to me. I had the basics like "LOL" and "ROFL," but had trouble with "KK" (for Okay.) I thought my daughter had some new thumb studder!
Along the way I made up some of my own; "DMAHYBBA!" That is "Dad's mad as hell you better be asleep!" But for the most part I write the way I was taught - I'm old. A text for me was using the dial pad on the corded house phone to send a message to my dad's pager. (Kids a pager is a device that beeps and then you find a pay phone to call back the person who paged you... Kid's a pay phone is a...)
I wake between 5 and 5:30 most days and really enjoy the time to read a few chapters, write in a journal or blog, or just plan my day. Learning to write, read, or think is a true life skill.
See you tomorrow! Todd
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