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September 2020 I experienced a non-cancerous brain tumor, its removal and a stroke.
#1038475 added September 8, 2024 at 8:10am
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Writerhood
Overwhelmed? Yep, that is the word I am looking for to describe the past week. Thank you, Schnujo's Doing NaNoWriMo? Author Icon, for the encouragement and unexpected plug, and thank you for all the new likes and followers.

Before my brain tumor, I wished I could be a writer. After the events this week, the quote, "Be careful what you wish for; it might come true, " or some variation of similar combined words came to mind. I wondered, have I finally succeeded in being named Writer? I have 30 years of notebooks containing aged yellow paper. The pages contain hours of pen and pencil marks. However, I have always needed clarification on what being named Writer meant.

I equated becoming a Writer to becoming a Knight. First, a King (Publisher, Editor, Printer) or another Knight (Published author, Poet, Reporter) would tap my shoulder with a quill. Next, they needed to exchange some obligatory words ending, "Henceforth and forever you are a Writer of Words, Teller of Tales, and Thinker of Big Thoughts."

After surviving a brain tumor and associated misadventures, I realized I had been a writer all along. Thanks to mild brain damage. I am getting a new opportunity to learn what being a writer means. I hope, with practice, I become a better Writer of Words. Today, I am grateful I can thread together these few. The courage to write down your thoughts is being a Thinker of Big Thoughts. All the other things, grammar, spelling, plot twists, characters, etc., are tools to become a Teller of Tales.

I started writing again about 18 months ago. The scale my speech therapist used estimated a 2nd-grade intellect. I have improved, but I am not an "A" student. However, I am a writer. It turns out I have always been a writer. The proof? I write good things, bad or ugly, I write. Before this, I worked and waited to be granted a Writerhood.

Not now. I write because I am a writer, not because of a wish. If you pen your own words, you are a writer, too, just in case no one has told you.

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