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Oooh… That’s so hard…

I know The Lord of the Rings is a pretty standard answer for a lot of people, but that one really is up on my list for a million reasons that I won’t go into a lot or I’d be writing an essay. Probably a couple ways it really influenced my writing would be showing me how beautiful a story could be while comparing dark and light/the gorgeous writing style.

The Silmarillion  was impactful in helping me to realize how much I love good world building. Since I’m writing fantasy novels that have deep history that goes behind the actual books it was really helpful to see how Tolkien’s extensive world building.

Adorning the Dark (still not quite finished) has helped me so much in believing that learning to create is not a waste of time just because there are other more talented people in the fields that I love. It has been such an encouragement to me in my faith and in my writing/musical studies.

The Wingfeather Saga helped me in seeing how to make someone love a character while seeing their weaknesses… Maybe especially because I related so deeply with the POV’s strengths and weaknesses… There’s a lot in those books that have helped me as a writer and person…

Mind Soul Ink Paper by Rachel Starr Thomson was a huge blessing to me… Her essays on writing really encouraged me as I struggled through some changes I needed to make in how I portrayed faith/viewed my writing in light of my faith. Fantastic book that one.

The Seventh World Trilogy (also by Rachel Starr Thomson) also really helped me to rethink how I viewed some things in writing/was some of my favorite fantasy after reading Lewis and Tolkien.

There’s a few books that have blessed me as a person and writer.