J.M. Brewer

I am a 45-year-old native of Georgia who enjoys writing creative nonfiction. About a year and a half ago, I started thinking about all the interesting things that I had seen in my life and being a middle-aged Dad to a young child, I worried that I might not always be around to share my memories with him. I began to write about the things I remembered from my life at about the age he was then and found that I had finally tapped into my creative core in a way that was personally satisfying and which served a greater purpose at the same time.

I hesitantly began to share articles with my family and close friends who encouraged me to take it further, eventually resulting in my writing blog, "The Literate Pen". I am now nearing my 100th article, have a small but loyal base of followers and enjoy writing whenever I get the chance. I write about the classic nouns: people, places and things and I am fortunate to have many generations of family history to draw on, plus the more recent perspective of being a father to a young child who enables me to see things through his eyes. As a native Southerner, I like to weave all this against a backdrop of a culture unique in the United States that is part of who I am. I never imagined myself writing a blog, a book or even a newspaper article but have found that I enjoy committing words and thoughts to paper…its like taking stuff out of your mind so you can look at it with your own eyes and see more than just a reflection of yourself in a mirror.

My wife of twelve years and I have one son plus our three adopted "children", a dog named Snoopy and two cats named Atticus and Thomas.

The Literate Pen-Southern Writings and Ramblings: http://theliteratepen.com

Twitter: @TheLiteratePen