Bloganuary Day 3: Earliest Memory

Another day of January, another day of the WordPress Bloganuary challenge. Today’s prompt asks:

What is the earliest memory you have?

Since I prefer to blog about writing, I’m going to respond to this question on the topic of writing.

When I was young, I loved to write stories about clip art. I remember opening my favorite word processing program, selecting whichever clip art piece inspired me the most, and going on an imaginative journey to explain the goings-on of the image.

I ended up with short stories about all sorts of things—kids on adventures, the inner lives of everyday animals like squirrels or rabbits, happy families or families with trauma, superheroes, alternatives to schooling (I was quite over my own schooling sometimes), and who knows what else.

Every single story has been lost to time, and so I don’t have a copy of any one of them. Though I do have the memories of exploring my creativity through telling stories as a young child, and that’s good enough for me.