My friend and fellow author, Erin Nichole, put up a post awhile back titled, Why I Love Being an Author. That sounded like a fun idea for a post, and while mine won’t be filled with all the lovely photographs that she graced her post with, I decided to do my own version, listing just a few of my favorite parts of being an writer. It simply took me forever to take this post from paper, to Word document, and then to blog.

~ I get to work and play with words. All kinds of words. Long words, short words, complicated definitions, and simple meanings. I get to create word pictures, use similes, and research synonyms to my heart’s content!

~ My characters. Maybe this should have been first. Obviously, this is only related to anything that I write that is fictional though. (And I like writing non-fiction. Don’t let the long periods of my silent blog fool you!) Still, I love my characters. I learn so much through writing about them – more than I ever thought I would. And, while it may sound cliché, my characters are almost like my “friends,” because they are very real in my head. Even the ones who aren’t based after someone I know. Sometimes those are even more “real” to me, than the others. I even go back to read my own books, just because I start missing them.

~ I get to weave a complicated tapestry with these fictional lives, as best as I can, and it’s just so much fun! I also get to delve into one of my favorite things – a mystery. I almost never know the end of my book, before I get there. I love that! It keeps life adventurous.

~ The LORD teaches me so much, while I write. I’ve mentioned this before, but He does. And I hope He doesn’t stop. Often, it’s been downright painful, but it’s also been beautiful.

~ The readers. I love hearing that someone enjoyed my book or how one of my writings touched them in some way. Anyone who might be blessed, because of something I wrote, is an answered prayer.

~My imagination gets to stretch. The part of crafting a story, where you know what A represents and you understand C, but you have no idea what B is or how it builds a bridge between A and C – and you really just haven’t a clue how any of these tie into E and F at all, but you’re still missing G… My imagination gets to work a lot and, sometimes, that means lots of dishes get washed. Because my imagination’s sidekick, seems to be a stack of dirty dishes.

There you have it! Just a few reasons for why I love being an author!

To the KING be all the glory!