Y’all, I had my first writing tutoring session today, and I’m really proud of myself!

I remember when this friend of mine asked me if I would tutor her son in writing. She said he needed help specifically with the structure and organization. While I am in education (preschool), and am a writer, I wasn’t sure if I could teach someone else how to write.

The beginning of something can always seem shaky. While I was going through the smaller notes on the paper he’d brought for me to go over, I felt like I was sort of fumbling through the corrections and explanations of why certain words were spelled differently, meant different things, but still sounded the same.

I felt the connection when we started talking about beginning a paper.

I asked him to write ten things about himself. Maybe what he likes, or what he doesn’t like. So he gave me those things, and with each thing he said he liked or disliked, I told and showed him how he could go more in depth about that subject. That in itself is how you begin telling a story – by introducing yourself or your character to the audience.

It’s crazy because I don’t know where that came from, it sort of just spilled out of me. And I’m grateful because I have felt this sort of pull since late last year when it comes to possibly reading to children or working with children in another capacity somehow. I’m going to keep praying on it, and trust that God is going to lead me to where I need to be.

In the meantime, I’ve got this lovely tutoring gig every Wednesday afternoon, and I’m so glad I allowed myself to try this out instead of have fear that maybe I wasn’t good enough or being an imposter since I’d never tutored before.

I say all this to say: TRY. Because you never know if you’re good at something until you do. And maybe you’ll fail the first time, and maybe you’ll do great! But you’ll never know until you take that first step.

Mishy 🦋