Micaiah Bussey; born April 4th, 1987 to a family of ten brothers and sisters in the small town in Arizona, he spent his days doing what every baby does. Sleep and eat.
Now that we got all the third person writing out of the way, we can get into a little history.
My father was a preacher, and my mother raised us, kids. We seemed to move a lot, but honestly, we only moved from Alabama to Maine back and forth several times.
There was a church in Maine my father preached at several times. It never seemed to work out.
During that time, my life consisted of just about everything. Skating, school, snow, repeat, life's charm was anything but boring.
Although I attended a Christian school during our time in Maine, the majority of my education happened through a curriculum I will never forget. My mother homeschooled all of us using ACE — a Christian based curriculum which almost taught us without a teacher.
During that time I learned something vital about myself which would prove to be an obstacle to my writing career.
I couldn't spell!
Now don't get me wrong, this wasn't a handicap brought on by lack of education, it was something in the way I looked at words. The English language and the way I thought didn't jive for some reason. As a result, my mother put me through rigorous amounts of extra homework attempting to compensate for this issue.
I remember my mother not being all that great at English either. Which made it difficult for her to teach or help us when we were working on the English subject.
Two of my older sisters seemed to be pretty good at it, and they would help out whenever they could. My handicap though, made me quite frustrated all the time.
I remember telling my one sister how horrible learning English was, and how I didn't need it for anything. She looked at me and said, "You're going to grow up to be a writer, just because you said that." Looking back, I can see the humor in the situation, and I appreciate all the effort that was put in to improve my writing skills.
Over the years, I didn't know what I wanted to be, but I loved computers. So I would spend my days learning to type and practicing typing. I also liked to write letters and journaling.
Looking back I can see the hours I spent training to become a writer without even knowing it.
Writing, however, wasn't my only interest though. I also enjoyed Martial Arts or Karate, that's where I met my beautiful bride.
Another interest I have is business leadership or entrepreneurship (another word I still have trouble spelling). I think overall; my interest is in creativity. I'm continually fascinated by creating new things and reinventing stuff. I like to see how things work, and fit. I love to watch peoples reactions to life in general. Life itself is an incredible experience if you have an open mind, and you're curious.
I firmly believe people do not spend enough time making mistakes, and enjoying them. People seem to be judged by their errors even though errors are how we learn and get better.
If you judge yourself for making errors, you cannot practice, and if you can't practice, you will not get better.
Now you know, I'm a little preachy myself, perhaps, preachy is hereditary.
My first major writing project came about when my sister, Sarah, was talking to me about the novels she was reading. She had a crazy thought of how a story should be written and had lots of ideas for creating one. I listened and became inspired. After months of writing self-help books for the practice, I had a new goal; Writing a novel.
I set out to write a spy novel, and after months of disastrous work, I had created an almost readable book.
It lacked on several levels.
I tried for months to repair the book, but it only got worse. So, I decided I needed a new one.
Brainstorming with Sarah a few weeks later, we created the plot for the book which now is "Mystery on Pirate Island."
The story was fun, and the characters were warm and exciting. I was very excited to read the first draft, Sara was too it was the beginning of something great. It didn't matter where it went.
Now days, I love to write; whenever I can, about a vast amount of topics. But my focus on writing mysteries is still very much alive, and the future books of the Pirate Island series are awesome, if I do say so myself.
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