A sixth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Waller, encouraged her students to write. In one exercise, she had her students create the ending to a story for which she provided the beginning. She chose several to read to the class.
When she picked mine and began to read, I looked around clandestinely to see if others were listening. If they were not paying attention, they were doing a pretty good job of pretending.
From that day forward I decided that I was a writer. A story about my cocker spaniel went to a popular magazine, and I received my first rejection letter at ag more...
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