The Beginning of My Journey as Writer, Poet and Author

This is my first post here in this blog where I hope to share with you my journey as a writer, author and poet.

This journey began a long time ago when I was in school. I was a voracious reader and I loved to write. My teacher asked me to rewrite the stories that I had read, in simpler language and to share those stories with those of my classmates whose proficiency in the English language was less competent.

I not only rewrote the stories, but also got my classmates to enact them during our break time. Those were the days!!

As I grew older, I found myself enjoying poetry more and more. I began writing short poems which I did not share then. It was only when I was attending teacher training college that I shared a poem about a rose. This attracted the attention of my English lecturer and his comments encouraged me to continue writing more poems, many of which are based on my personal experiences.

I then tried my hand at writing short stories, the first of which was loosely based on the life of my second cousin. It was gratifying to see the stories take form and I discovered self-publishing on amazon.com.

It was by no means an easy journey as I’m not tech savvy. It was through trial and error that I managed to upload the stories after laboriously creating the ebook covers for my stories, using amazon’s cover creator. Later, I found out about fiverr.com, a site where you could outsource the design of your book covers.

In each stage of my writing journey, I learned something and I’m still learning.