Thursday, 09/17/2009 - 6:50 am
by Angela Wilson
When/how did you know you wanted to write?
I’ve been a storyteller all my life. When I was a child, if I didn’t like the way a story ended, I made up my own ending. I wrote stories for my own and my friends’ amusement. I guess in those early days what I was writing was fan-fic, but at the time there was no such thing.
When I was a stay-at-home mom in my mid-twenties, I took a writing course (just to get out of the house) that opened my eyes to the actual process of writing and submitting for publication. But only after I discovered and joined Romance Writers of America in 2001 did I get serious about writing and publishing a novel. Unfortunately, my dreaded day job was very stressful and sapped most of my creativity. Finally, at the end of 2003, I decided if I were ever going to write and publish a novel, I needed to quit the day job and make a serious commitment to pursuing my goals. I’m so happy I made that decision, and I have never regretted it!
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