Growing as a Writer by Michelle Olson

This school year, I started with such excitement as I was bringing back Writer’s Workshop to my school. I loved seeing how the students grew to love writing as they realized that it could be fun!

But one thing that I noticed was, as much excitement that I had for the writing of my students, I was not writing. Sure, I wrote occasionally when I wasn’t conferring with students and I wrote when I needed to for job purposes, but I was not writing regularly for me or because I wanted to be writing.

Fast forward to April… I had the itch to write. I hadn’t ever really felt this before, to the degree where I was wanting to share my writing. It was such a strange feeling to have, wanting to share what I had written, not just with my students, but also with the world, anyone who was willing to read what I had written!

So I did something that I never thought I would do, I started my very own blog. I had been thinking about this for awhile and finally took the plunge.

And what a feeling! I love being able to write...about my love for literacy and my family.  I can keep writing and growing as a writer!


Michelle Olson-I am a reading specialist by day and wife, mom, and Usborne book lady by night! I recently earned my doctorate and focused on students’ attitudes towards themselves as writers and their own writing. Follow me on Twitter at @molson414 and at my blog, Books on the Back Porch: https://booksonthebackporch.wordpress.com I am also a contributor for the Reading by Example blog: https://readingbyexample.com