I grew up in the seventies and eighties. During that time, I went through elementary, junior high (we called it middle school), and high school and college! Of all the wonderful memories that stick in my mind during this period of time, the one that really stands out is my reading a book. Books have always been a huge part of my life. I recall reading everything from Nancy Drew to Laura Ingalls Wilder. When I reached my high school years in the early eighties, I discovered romance novels and I read them voraciously. At the time, there was not a whole lot of Christian fiction out there, but I read whatever novels I could find.
Every two weeks, the bookmobile would pull into our neighborhood and the driver would honk the horn, signaling it was time to get more books to read. I guess my love of fiction was kind of a sign that I wanted to be a writer, although I didn’t realize it at the time!
Are there any books that impacted you as a youth/child? If so, what books were your favorites when you were a youngster?
When I was in college in the late eighties, my freshman English teacher said that he felt that I could write well, and he tried to get me to change my major from Finance to English.
Needless to say, I didn’t listen to him. But I wish I had.
I’ll continue to post about how I came to discover the joy of writing in future blog posts.