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"She supported me in so many ways, from buying me a typewriter instead of new shoes for her job, ensuring I always had paper, and not bothering me when she saw me stabbing those keys."

"It seems that I have been writing all my life.There isn’t a moment growing up where I remember not writing stories about lions, and witches, and dragons. I even hold memories in my heart of trying to convince my friends to write a story with me when they slept over.

The best thing about this passion though was my mom. She supported me in so many ways, from buying me a typewriter instead of new shoes for her job, ensuring I always had paper, and not bothering me when she saw me stabbing those keys. This was sometimes used to avoid chores but that’s between me and you…

When I was fifteen she unfortunately got sick and followed a path I couldn’t. Somehow it didn’t seem right to write after her death and I stopped. For over seven years I didn’t write more than letters, although judging from the thickness of the envelopes I knew that I was expelling all my creativity into connecting with those I loved.

It wasn’t until the fall of 2006 when a friend passed me a note in our tax classed with this website and the following message “I am a writer and you are a stay at home mom, I challenge you to try and beat my score,” that I remembered I wrote short stories. I went home before November the first and took out an old box in the garage and took out the countless pages that I had thrown in there after my mom’s death.

I have to be honest, I was astonished that I had that amount of talent at such a young, inexperienced age. I then came back home, signed up and prepared myself for my first year as a NaNo contender. I didn’t win according to the site but I did win deep down, for I was able to one more sit at my desk and pound away at those keys. And every time I sit down to write I remember my mom, this site, and look at my calendar wishing it was November once more."

-Rose

Rose is a writer from New Mexico.

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