Joe Manning Lived Here (ePub)

I was a coal miner in West Virginia. I went into the coal mines because, first of all, there were basically no other jobs. I wanted to learn a lot about electricity, and the mines were better than college, which I could not afford. I spent eighteen years in the coal industry, and then the major coal firm shut down all operations. I discussed with my wife the options and decided, since I loved to design things, that I needed an education in drafting. I contacted a local college and found I had to enroll in a full semester and that the classes included English. I survived the first part of English and grammar. The second half of the semester was writing short stories. The professor would give us a title and we would write a short story. She loved the first one I wrote. She read it to the class, and they seemed to like it. After about fifteen different stories, my grade point average came up because I received an A+ on all my stories. The professor told me that I should think seriously about writing books, that I had the talent for it. After a few years doing nothing about writing, my wife became very ill. I was in the house most of the time taking care of her. I finally sat down at the computer with an idea. I found that it was really fun. I love to watch a story emerge that anyone could read and hopefully enjoy. I want some literature that my thirteen-year-old granddaughter could read and feel good about.

Dieses eBook können Sie uneingeschränkt auf allen Geräten der tolino Familie lesen. Zum Lesen auf sonstigen eReadern und am PC benötigen Sie eine Adobe ID.