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Re: My teacher...
Well, when I was around 13, I started to write this autobiographical novel of sorts and all my classmates read it and they were intrigued, from first page to the last one. It was really a discovery for me.
posted by
Matie
on September 12, 2007 at 6:38 PM
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Re: Matie
WOW, for me it's an honor that you got to do that just because of my post. I'm really flattered. Thank you.
posted by
Matie
on September 12, 2007 at 6:35 PM
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Re: My muse was the fat girl.
That must be because you have another muse that you don't exactly know of.
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Matie
on September 12, 2007 at 6:34 PM
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My teacher...
in 7th grade first let me know I could write. He gave us an assignment to write a short story and I wrote almost 28 pages of dialogue. He was completely surprised and said what surprised him the most is that I did almost all of it right. He then read the story to the class. That was the first time I knew I had a gift and I've been writing ever since and that was about 35 years ago.
I've had a lot of others who have inspired and encouraged me, including my father, but my teacher was the first.
posted by
whimsystoryteller
on September 12, 2007 at 2:46 PM
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Matie
You sent me on a trip to the past and how I loved to watch my Dad, sitting at his roll-top desk filling his fountain pen from a little inkwell, writing with his own unique flourish and slant, inkblot always at hand. I loved to see him writing. It made me want to do the same--just write, anything and everything.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 12, 2007 at 2:17 PM
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My muse was the fat girl.
She's gone now but I keep on writing.
posted by
justanotherskinnybitch
on September 12, 2007 at 1:57 PM
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Re: matie
Sure, it can be anyone. Even the stranger on the street.
posted by
Matie
on September 12, 2007 at 8:01 AM
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matie
before my dad died it was him, now its my kids, and strangley those I work with
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Lanetay
on September 11, 2007 at 8:45 PM
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Re: matie
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it and it made you put a spin on things.
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Matie
on September 11, 2007 at 7:35 PM
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Re: I love this post and dont consider it cheesy at all. It makes important
This is really great because you have a long-term source of inspiration then.
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Matie
on September 11, 2007 at 7:34 PM
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Re: hi matie
Hi. Thanks for coming by.
posted by
Matie
on September 11, 2007 at 7:33 PM
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Re: I just saw your post...and yes Pablo Neruda poetry and prose but there's
Awwww I know. I read it everyday.
posted by
Matie
on September 11, 2007 at 7:32 PM
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matie
A post that makes one think. Looking at things from a different perspective
posted by
Tattered_Knight
on September 11, 2007 at 7:30 PM
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Re: Matie
That's a nice theory, Justi, though I'm not really sure how it works.
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Matie
on September 11, 2007 at 7:29 PM
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Re: this is not cheesy :)
Thanks for reading. I agree 100% with you as I've met these type of people. My Writing teacher in college is like a second mommy to me. I see her from time to time.
posted by
Matie
on September 11, 2007 at 7:26 PM
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Re: Such brilliance of thought...as though you could read the pages
Wow, thanks Teddy.
posted by
Matie
on September 11, 2007 at 7:23 PM
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Re: i loved this post
Thanks Riri.
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Matie
on September 11, 2007 at 7:23 PM
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I love this post and dont consider it cheesy at all. It makes important
points. Everyone needs different people along the way who chivvy us on in the bits where we flag or get discouraged. I dont remember anyone really encouraging me to write until friends and family read my writing. My biggest fans are now my husband and kids. Whenever I imagine doing well with my writing,I imagine their faces,their pride in me. Funny,they are already proud of me and yet Im still dawdling with incomplete work.
posted by
proc
on September 10, 2007 at 8:49 PM
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hi matie
posted by
richinstore
on September 10, 2007 at 6:33 PM
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I just saw your post...and yes Pablo Neruda poetry and prose but there's
my girlfriend...she's my muse... every day... just read my sonnets... and they are like letters to my one and only... she inspires me
posted by
JMO_
on September 10, 2007 at 4:19 PM
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Matie
This is a very good post. I wonder if your muse is that magnet in your brain and heart that sucks up all the information around you until one day you 'feel and think' you need to share it? This is an excellent post.
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Justi
on September 10, 2007 at 2:41 PM
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this is not cheesy :)
This is not a cheesy post at all Matie
... it's funny how we get all apologetic when we're being totally honest!!! I guess we've been thought not to act/be too vulnerable in a world full of sharks (that's how I was brought up anyways).
I feel that the people/situations that inspire me most are the ones that challenge me - and I've had quite a few in my life .... sometimes it could be someone you meet that instantly challenges your way of thinking and you get that immediate urge to fend them off, only to realize that they are the kind of people that will do you a world of good if you stuck around with them - I've had a couple of good teachers when at uni who were a huge inspiration to me also, they were the ones that could instantly tell you what stuff you were made of .... again, at first I was really "shocked" that they could read me like an open book and hated them for it but I soon realized that they had seen the potential that was in me and wanted to get it out. I think I can safely say that without these people/situations I wouldn't be were I am today - not that I actually know where I am today but still you get the message!
posted by
White_Elephant
on September 10, 2007 at 3:47 AM
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Such brilliance of thought...as though you could read the pages
of a person's defining past...well done indeed!
posted by
teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade
on September 9, 2007 at 8:27 PM
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i loved this post
posted by
riri0322
on September 9, 2007 at 8:10 PM
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