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Goodreads asked J.A. Martin:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

J.A. Martin It feels amazing to use words to affect the thoughts, feelings, and imaginations of others. I have been writing since I was ten years old. I had a teacher who started giving us "Train of thought" projects, where she would write a sentence on the board and have us copy the sentence and then start the story. After about five minutes, we would switch papers with someone else, and then five minutes later, another person. Over the weekend, we would have to take what was written by the other three people and finish the story. It was great fun and so exciting to know I could write. I started making up my own stories after that and reading them to my parents and sisters.

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