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@a_nna @writergirl101 @imwritehere1920

This looks really cool. Ya’ll have such cute first stories.😂

I first started writing because I liked it. When I got older I wrote because I needed it. Now, I write because it’s part of me.

One of my favorite things (if favorite things are possible) about God is how creative He is. His art (nature) and His massive redemptive story. I like to say I write and draw because, just as every one of my characters has a small part of me in them, I reflect Him by copying what He did first.

I also write because I love beauty, and stories, to me, are beautiful.

I can’t even remember what my “first” story was. I’ve been telling stories ever since I was tiny. My first written story was about a boy named Ben (which I spelled Bin the whole time😝) who tamed a wild Chestnut stallion. It was very closely based of The Black Stallion, which I loved as a kid.

Looking back, all my stories as a little kid were closely based off the books I read…especially Where the Red Fern Grows, Old Yeller, Little House on the Prairie, and then all the Westerns we used to watch.

Just in the past couple years, my stories have become deeper. I like to think that I never lost the innocence of my little-kid stories (or at least I’m trying not to). Even in the darkness, I feel my calling is to shine the pure light of stories and characters who haven’t been pulled in by the shadows. I know everyone is a sinner, but there’s magic in looking at the world like a kid does…seeing the beauty and light more then the darkness. That’s what I strive for, at least.