C5 Opening Windows: My Journey As A Trainer of Writers

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  • Nancy Thomas

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I discovered my calling as a writer when I was seven years old. I remember sitting on the rug, tablet and pencil in hand, playing with words, when it happened. I wrote a poem. I really didn’t know what I was doing, of course. It was pure play and imagination. What I did “know” was that a poem had to rhyme, so after writing that first line, “This is a poem by Nancy Forsythe,” my immediate task was to find a word that rhymed with “Forsythe.” The closest I could come was “knife”.  The second line, “about a girl and her dangerous knife,” led into a rhyming story about a serial killer.

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