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# From Little Things Big Things Grow
- URL: https://www.annemariecharrett.com/from-little-things-big-things-grow/
- Published: 2010-09-03T10:59:11.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-21T00:08:14.000Z
- Author: Anne-Marie Charrett
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One thing that I get occasionally complemented on is my writing. People write and let me know how they appreciate my writing style.  

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e2/0b/e20b1dc7-7596-416c-bbad-2be3126c3a68/content/images/2021/06/smallthings.jpeg "From Little Things Big Things Grow")

Initially this surprised me, because I do not consider myself a naturally gifted writer. In fact, quite the opposite.

Reading and Writing was always a bit of a nightmare for me. I had an elder sister who was extremely talented when it came to English. She naturally ‘ate’ her way through literature and flew through reading the [Famous Five](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FFamous%5FFive%5F%28series%29?ref=annemariecharrett.com) whilst I plodded through the [Secret Seven](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FSecret%5FSeven?ref=annemariecharrett.com). Its not that I couldn’t do it, but I could never do it as well as my older sister and that pained me.

Come secondary school, though proficient in English, I still had this niggling sense of inferiority, exacerbated by the teachers at school who consistently expected more from me, “because my sister is so good….”.

Then, the thought of writing a school essay on any topic terrified me. I did not feel I was incompetent, I knew I was incompetent.

Funnily enough, my essays reflected this skewed view of my own ability.

So I did what I normally do when faced with that type of scenario.

I gave up.

It's a strange old world, and the clock turns around and for one reason or another I started blogging about testing.

Me? Writing? My totally creative family were to say, slightly surprised.

But, I’ve been blogging for about 3 years now and it looks like I’m not that bad at writing after all.

And I am proud of this turnaround, in both my writing skill, and my awareness of my ability. Its demonstrates to me, what I can do if I just give something a go.

In fact, I have been asked and I’m in the process of contributing to a book on testing, as well as collaborating with James Bach on a book on IM Coaching.

Its a little victory, but I think an important one.

*[From Little Things Big Things Grow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From%5FLittle%5FThings%5FBig%5FThings%5FGrow?ref=annemariecharrett.com) is based on the story of [The Gurindji Strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FGurindji%5FStrike?ref=annemariecharrett.com) and [Vincent Lingiari](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%5FLingiari?ref=annemariecharrett.com). It describes how the [Gurindji people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurindji%5Fpeople?ref=annemariecharrett.com)‘s claim sparked the [Indigenous](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous%5FAustralian?ref=annemariecharrett.com) land rights movement. The protest led to the [Commonwealth Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal%5FLand%5FRights%5FAct?ref=annemariecharrett.com).*

*The Act gave Indigenous people freehold title to traditional lands in the [Northern Territory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%5FTerritory?ref=annemariecharrett.com) and the power of veto over mining and development on those lands. In 1975, 3,236 km² of land was handed back to the Gurindji people.*