How I Learned to Write.

I honestly cannot remember when I learned how to write. It seems as though I have been holding a pencil for my entire life, scribbling words down on paper and proudly showing my parents. I have always been fascinated with taking my thoughts out of my head and recording them in the form of prose, and the memories go so far back that it is difficult for me to place when exactly I began to put pen to paper.

I probably learned to write my letters somewhere around the age of 6. I distinctly remember knowing the alphabet when beginning kindergarten and have painful memories of learning cursive in the first grade. Despite what my teachers said, constantly practicing my script did not improve my handwriting, and the remnants of their direction can now be seen in the chicken scratch that passes for my handwritten assignments and journals.