You‘d Think I Knew I Was A Writer When…

jean compton
4 min readNov 12, 2019
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You’d think I knew I was a writer when…

  • In 6th Grade, I started to write down a story then, because it was flowing out so naturally, and I thought it must be the Devil doing it, I crumpled up the paper and threw it in the wastebasket.
  • I got a poem published in my junior high school literary publication.
  • I thought I mistakenly got in Advanced…

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jean compton

I have an eye for the artful and influence. Essays, Memoir and Musings on this and that. Currently working on a memoir about my life as a dancer in 80's NYC