Madi
Madi asked Angela N. Blount:

Hello :) what inspired you to start writing?

Angela N. Blount Hello, Madi! :) So sorry for the delay.

I've always loved stories. I was actually very slow to pick up reading when I was in the first grade, until a teacher figured out that I could learn much better if she had me write my own little stapled-together books. If you're looking for an origin point, I'd have to point you there. But the desire to write when I was older... that actually came from a love of reading. Starting in the 5th grade, I read voraciously--mostly as a way to escape from a very difficult and awkward time at school. By 6th grade I'd written my first book all in pencil in a spiral bound notebook. (It was terrible, but it was a start!) From there on, I never really stopped writing.

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