tina writing timeline

By nagle

  • I was born, the oldest of four children

  • Four years old, I learned to read before I started school

  • Five years old I started school, I turned six on the 22nd

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    I am sure I wrote, but I don't remember anything during this time

  • I learned manuscript in 1st and 2nd grade

  • my teacher told me I read out loud beautifully with great inflection

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    wrote letters to my grandmother

    My grandmother sent pretty writing stationary and stamps, we would write back and forth often. I guess that was one way to kind of keep up with our moves and what was going on.
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    wrote letter to my uncle in prison

    My uncle and I corresponde in writing during his term in prison. I stopped writing because he was manipulating my emotions and there was so much going on at home that I could not take any more tension.

  • we studied grammar and literature is english class

  • I am sure that we learned about essays, but I don't remember

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    wrote to my best friend

    We had to move from Potlatch, I corresponded with my best friend, now husband, Dale Nagle. through youth and misunderstandings we ended up not talking again until 1998.

  • I wrote a story to put in a class book we published and took home

  • my poem tittled LOVE

    my best friend kept it or I would not have it. I have vauge memories of writing it, but that is all.
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    Part of the black hole in my mind

    I have sporadic memories, but I did not write or if I did none of it survived moving around as much as I did.
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    No writing during this time

    I did not write during this time, I had lost most of my memories

  • I began writing my best friend again.

    I called my best friend and we began writing again. Mostly on birthdays and holidays, but it was good to write again.

  • I had to write an essay for English placement, I looked up the format online and base my writing on that model

  • Due to the essay I was able to start college in English 101

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    I have learned sooo much about writing and the process from my classes at the University of Idaho

  • I get the opportunity to learn more about writing so that I can help my students love writing like I do now.

  • Today

    I enjoy factual writing. I am excited about exploring fiction and poetry writing and committed to working on it. I feel most succesful when writing research based material because it is not as emotional as fiction. my setbacks in writing are all based in my inability to remember the past, just the emotions. Delving into my emotions has been difficult, until the last few years I did not know that I did not remember. I made up what I wished my past was like.