A few weeks later I sat down and looked through the bits of paper. This obstacle kept me from writing because it was just too much effort. Spelling always got in the way of my thoughts and ideas. By the time I figured out how to spell the word, the idea I was trying to convey was gone. I never learned the vowel sounds and still can't find words in a dictionary.
Commas are a hit or miss proposition.
The best book I ever found was the Mis-spellers dictionary. The only real paper I wrote before college was in the eleventh grade. It was about the author Shirley Jackson. I think this was the first time I had never been shown how to organize my thoughts, how to do research, or how to record on note cards my ideas. To my amazement the paper wrote itself after that.