The Beginning
My fondness for storytelling was instilled in me as a
small child. My mother read children’s books to me all
the time and encouraged me to examine the illustrations
and talk about what I saw. Not surprisingly, characters
began to visit me at an early age and I felt compelled to
capture their stories as best I could. I think the earlier
ones were written on construction paper with my crayons.
My characters were talking farm animals and they enjoyed
life just like humans did. I didn't learn punctuation until a few
years later, so much to my mother's delight, the three-page
story of Mr. Pig's party was a very long run-on sentence.
The Middle
As I grew older, I continued to write and began to bring
my handwritten stories to school for my classmates to
read. My looseleaf booklets were a huge hit and were the
equivalent of today’s social networking profiles, where
instead of a keyboard, my "followers" used actual writing
utensils to leave comments. Despite going to college to
pursue a science degree, I never forgot my love of writing,
and managed to entertain quite a few professors when
given the green light to sprinkle a little creative life into
an otherwise bland report.
Nowhere Near the End
Today I feel very fortunate to work within walking distance of
the White House, the Washington Monument, the Supreme
Court, and other historical treasures. In my spare time, I
volunteer in my community, take interesting classes, travel to
New York City, attend writing workshops, and add paragraphs
to a growing library of fiction works that I hope to see on a
bookstore shelf much sooner than later. My fiction writing is
centered around small town life in the South. I'm most
comfortable developing my characters and their lives in these
settings―often marked with spirituality and superstition―
because of my own southern roots.
I enjoy this job of creating and manipulating words.
When you're passionate about a craft, you invest in your
knowledge of it, hone your skills, seek out new challenges,
and discover that although you'll never learn everything―you
can get really close.
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"When a true genius
appears, you may know
him by this sign: that
the dunces are all in
confederacy against
him."
-Jonathan Swift
"The role of a writer is
not to say what we all
can say, but what we
are unable to say."
-Anaïs Nin
"Mistakes are a fact of
life. It's the response to
the error that counts."
-Nikki Giovanni
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