A Writer'S Journey To Memoir Writing: John Jack Wigley

 

A WRITER’S JOURNEY TO MEMOIR WRITING

 John Jack Wigley  Wigley 

 

M MOIR •

French: mémoire: memoria, meaning memory or reminiscence) is a collection of memories that an individual writes about moments or events, both public or priva private, te, that took place in the subject's/person’ subject's /person’ss llife. ife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoir

 

Iasdeveloped a child. an early love for literature

 

While most boys age would play tumbang preso ormy siyatong or climb guava trees andofcatch spiders sun, under the scorching heat the midday

 

.. I would get theChristmas storybookand myholler mother gave me during at the kids, about four or fivethe years old, young to come and gather around wooden staircase of Lolo Jessie.

 

I would borrow the kiddie blackboard, ruler, and chalk of my neighbor and read aloud passages from the storybook.

 

If I saw inattentive kids who seemed uninterest uninterested ed in listening to my ret retelling elling of Why the Pineapple Eyes or Chicken Little, I would Has bangMany on the board.

 

I would ask the kids who said what and what happened to whom in the story. They would answer in answer unison as I flashed illustrations from the book.

 

I was fascinated by the stories that I was reading to them, totally lost in the world of Pina, the disobedient child, and Chicken Little, the innocent fowl who thought the world was over after an acorn fell on his head.

 

One day, I thought to myself, I will be writing my own stories.

 

1. How did the author become interested inter ested in the art of writing? 2. What were the first books that he read that got him into writing? 3. Does the author's story remind you of a similar experience? Share it with a partner.