Question about writing/reading as a kid and early influences…
Oh, boy. It was less about what I wrote and more about what I read. Many of you have heard my story that I wasn’t a reader until I was in 8th grade, and, you know, the teacher had me read a book. And the reason that book struck me so hard in part was because, you know, that middle school’s a hard age, I think most of you will agree. It’s an awkward age. And…I had, without really knowing it, been searching for a while for something that was me . Something that I could do, something that my talents would work for. I was always a daydreamer. And it wasn’t till I read that fantasy novel that I said, “Wow, look at this. Here is somebody who does what I do, and they do it for a living. And they’ve turned it into a job. And here is something that is me.” And right from the beginning I realized this is something I want to be doing. And so, it was about the books I was reading at the time that made me…I felt I’d found home, even though, you know…Just in those early books I read.
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