What is the greatest joy of writing for you?
Hearing that someone enjoyed or benefited from what I wrote.
Do you remember the first story you ever read, and the impact it had on you?
"Janet and Mark." :) My big sister was learning to read, and mom would sit with her on the sofa while she read aloud from her school books. I was 3-1/2 and immensely jealous! I learned the words from listening, then picked up the books and taught myself to match the words to the shapes on the page. Been reading ever since.
The first books I *remember* strongly are books I read when I was about 8: Gone With the Wind (which I read one weekend after seeing the movie on TV), The Hobbit, and Robert Heinlein's "Number of the Beast." I also really loved Black Beauty and a book about a girl and a horse called "Blue Ribbons for Meg" that year....
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