I want to share with you a few reasons why I became a writer.
First reason for becoming an author.
I started reading books when I was in fourth grade because of the teacher I had. She loved reading books, and would read a portion of a book to us each day, after we had lunch. Her love for books rubbed off onto me. I started buying Nancy Drew books, Hardy Boys books, etc. to read.
In 9th grade, I took a “Book Reading” class. The teacher of that class had a love for books. He had each of us pick books we wanted to read. As we finished reading each of our books, we had to write a book report, plus do a little research on the author. That’s when I became interested in reading books that had something to do with history.
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I also had other teachers in 9th grade that loved to read, and who passed that love on to me. My English teacher had us read books and write a report on the book and the author. In World History class, the teacher had us read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”. In English Lit and American Lit both, there was a lot of reading involved.
In the 12th grade, in American Government class, we were required to read the constitution and memorize it.
It was good that I had developed a love for reading. Otherwise, I would have been in trouble. In certain classes in junior high and high school both, reading books counted as ¼ of our semester grade.
The second reason:
When I took my college entrance exam in high school, there was a portion of the exam that included writing. We were given a few subjects to choose from to write about. Once we picked a subject, we had so much time in which to write a story based on that subject. When the results from my college entrance exam came back, a school counselor sat down with me and went over the results. He said, “Teresa, in the writing area, you scored in the top ten percent of the nation. I really think you need to consider writing as a profession.”
I dismissed the idea and didn’t think about it anymore. I had my heart set on going to college and taking classes in the business/secretarial field. Well, during my two years of college, I was required to take a few English classes: “Foundation of Communication One”, “Business Communications”, and “Business Letter Writing”. A lot of writing, plus creativity were in those classes. I just couldn’t seem to get away from taking classes that involved learning how to think for myself when it came to writing.
This third reason is really the main reason I started writing books.
Several people I knew, and some I didn’t know very well, started complaining that more Christian writers were needed to write books. It was getting harder to find good clean books to read that didn’t have swear words or dirty scenes in them. It was also starting to get harder to find devotional books for women that used the King James Version Bible verses.
God started dealing with me about writing fiction books that didn’t have swearing or dirty scenes in them. After I wrote my first book and got it published, I started writing my second book. After doing research and started in on it, God spoke to me about putting that book aside and start writing Christian Devotional books for women.
That is what I am doing at present, writing a Christian Devotional book for women that contains KJV Bible scripture. I hope to have that book published before Easter.
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