What is your favorite thing about reading and/or writing?
It’s hard for me to choose just one thing! I love that I get to create new worlds, love that it’s my responsibility to make people think about God and ideas. But I think my very favorite thing is that I know that, when I write, I am sitting in the very seat of God’s will for my life … I am doing what I was created to do. How many 31-year-olds are that clear on their calling (and are able to respond)?! I love my literary life.
JACKIE LEA SOMMERS 
My reasons are the same as yours 🙂
love it!!
When I write, even when it feels like I can’t find the next word, it still feels like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing. I feel a contentment that I don’t feel with any other activity.
Mmmm … love that, Tina!!
Personally, I love when there are characters I can relate to, when I get to know them, watch their interactions with each other, and feel their struggles and triumphs right along with them. The highs and the lows, I want to experience them all with the characters I’ve grown to love.
When I myself am writing, my main goal is to make the reader feel something for the characters and the story I’m telling. Joy, sorrow, sympathy, anger, whathaveyou. I also like it when I can teach my audience something, too. 🙂
I just wish I had your certainty about God’s will for your life, Jackie. 😦
I didn’t always feel this way!
But you feel that way NOW, right? 😉 So, what changed? CBT happened?
CBT changed my whole life, yes. But also just writing almost daily for the last five years has solidified my calling in me.