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Happy Mother's Day! Please join Omnific Publishing authors as we celebrate our mothers on our weekly Thursday Blog Bounce. Today we discuss how our mothers have influenced our writing. With her encouragement and kooky sense of humor, my mother had an early influence on my imagination. She enrolled me in art classes before the age of five (too bad the lessons didn't stick!) My mom valued education and the power of the written word, especially for firing off letters to politicians who weren't doing their job! And, my mother is a lot of fun. I remember her driving me and my neighborhood teammates home from swim practice one night . . . for some reason she started making animal noises. We had a blast imitating chickens, rabbits, and wookies. Here's an example of a movie that cracks us up ( Every Which Way But Loose ): Finishing a novel takes bountiful hard work and perseverance--qualities my mother instilled in me. The fact that she's still working fou...