NW Boomer Writing Aptitude Test

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1. Gary Bowen says

   April 9, 2014 at 1:20 pm

   David you take me back to a time when my life was filled with very difficult circumstances. Doing my best at trying to hang on to my career while jumping through all of the hoops California workers comp has in store for an injured worker…

   I took a simple writing class at my local junior college. My being horribly dyslexic has never been any kind of welcoming addition to my knowledgebase or skill sets in my comeupence if you will. It has always been a challenge not to totally create concern regards to testing especially if it comes down to recollection of technical terms definitions so on. Most test usually result in disaster for this kid.

   Not so in this particular writing class and not even a hint from my wonderful teacher bless her heart. At the time, my undergoing so much hurt and pain rejection and failure– struggles with horrid bitterness was tearing through me like a double-edged knife slicing through my heart and soul. But this insightful instructor very close to my own age at the time opened up her writing world so as to allow me a simple glance, a demonstration of what can be. This was of course after I wrote a very emotional piece about an excessively violent event that resulted in death forever haunting my dreams.

   This woman took special interest in what it was I had to say and I look back now, with her guidance she emphasized that everybody has their own style when it comes to the written word and what you write just as a well composed photograph can be considered as a work of art passing on throughout the ages. For if we do not tell our story, then who will? There is emotional release in the recollection of so many past events often times though, such recollections delay sleep for many many days making the days dreary much like this thick nasty smog that seemingly engulfs our city and all that lives within her.

   I will be forever grateful to this wonderful teacher and writer extraordinaire for her patients for her guidance and her gentle way of molding and shaping me into an entirely new direction such deeply etched searing expressions that still linger into mere written words.

   It has been many months since I’ve actually written much of anything lengthy. My explanation will have to come out another time as it has nothing to do with this topic.

   R-72 10-7

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   • David Gillaspie says

     April 9, 2014 at 1:55 pm

     I heard this list of rules that might help.

     1. No tears in the writing means no tears in the reading.

     2. If you read to an audience, no tears. Let the audience react.

     3. Writing, like most crafts, makes you get better the more you do it.