Transforming Weakness into Strength: My Writing Journey
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a step, I do not even know I might be a writer while I was young. I used to skip English classes because I prefer mathematics or calculation rather than languages or other social sciences, and biological sciences. I so much love those calculations that it interests me the most.
As I continue to age, I see that I would be needing English as a means of communication and other factors therein but due to the fact that my English teacher is one whom I am not pleased with, then I continue to deteriorate. People used to say that, if you dislike a teacher, there is a tendency that you won't understand their subject or course. So technically, I kept having lower grades in my English and poor communication skills.
When I was about finishing secondary, I saw more reasons why, I need English and this gives me the avenue to charge myself that, I must be up and doing in my English Language and communication skills.
I got myself charged with letter writing, essays, articles, among others and this enabled me to start blogging immediately I left high school. This blogging is a means to share my ideas and opinions to the general public and to seek opinions or comments that will allow me to develop more interest the more and to make necessary corrections and upgrading.
While I keep my hopes high and the interest continues to germinate, then begin to be a prolific writer. I love to write press statements and articles against some status quo while I was in a tertiary institution.
As a younger one, I always thought about long essays and how those writers arrive at such dissertation. I found it more hectic for them to have pitched such long essays or articles and where the inspiration is coming from. These are some of the factors that contribute to my being towards becoming a writer.
My writing skills were duly polished when I began Student Unionism, I became more popular with my persistent and continuous writing to condemn and praise any form of status quo that is happening around the college and this makes me more popular.
It has been years now, and the morale is still high, I intend to write more about my journey and what prompts me into starting a writing challenge. Meanwhile, the Spirit is willing but the body is weak.
Probably sooner, I will further this discussion. The writing challenge continues and thanks for standing with me this far.
#SeptemberWritingChallenge
#Day20
20/09/2024
Anwo Sunday Adedeji