From Letters to my Mother. Mrs Mooney looked at me and said “Write what you know”. I was 13 and this shaped my work for a lifetime. Her casual words hit me with a fierce logic.
I'm intrigued... ordinary people's ordinary and extraordinary lives are my favourite genre, and the ‘60’s and 70’s are my era also. I think children relate to rhyming, so like you when I was very young I wrote poetry of sorts. And in diary with a tiny lock such as you describe, but when I discovered it much later what I wrote was useless... "today was the best day ever"... that was it, no details! For a long time, I just wrote things in my head that never got put down on paper. Until my teenage years when bad poetry is de rigeur... there's still a few poems in a folder somewhere here in the house... or shed. When I die someone will get a laugh.
I bet they will evoke such memories though! Those old poems. You write beautifully now - i am sure they were great. Though there is an argument for throwing all that stuff out before someone else find them! I have been on the move for so many years now that almost all are gone. Sadly.
I'm intrigued... ordinary people's ordinary and extraordinary lives are my favourite genre, and the ‘60’s and 70’s are my era also. I think children relate to rhyming, so like you when I was very young I wrote poetry of sorts. And in diary with a tiny lock such as you describe, but when I discovered it much later what I wrote was useless... "today was the best day ever"... that was it, no details! For a long time, I just wrote things in my head that never got put down on paper. Until my teenage years when bad poetry is de rigeur... there's still a few poems in a folder somewhere here in the house... or shed. When I die someone will get a laugh.
I bet they will evoke such memories though! Those old poems. You write beautifully now - i am sure they were great. Though there is an argument for throwing all that stuff out before someone else find them! I have been on the move for so many years now that almost all are gone. Sadly.