Recently I received an email message commenting about how prolific a writer I have been. The message suggested that I share some of my “secrets.”

Some Personal History

Throughout my life I have been saddled with poor handwriting and spelling skills. At the same time, I have had the ability to translate my ideas into words. I think about some topic, I talk to myself (in non-verbal sentences) and I write what I am saying to myself. I tend to be a slow thinker, but my thinking tends to be good.

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I can still remember when I was taking English Composition as a freshman at the University of Oregon. We often had in-class writing tests. My spelling abilities were not very good. I would compose a sentence in my head, check to see if I could spell all of the words, and edit the sentence so that it avoided words I could not spell.