1) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I never wanted to be a writer! It found me, and sometimes I wish it hadn’t. Kidding, not kidding. Though most of the time I’m very grateful for all the meaning, beautiful, existential angst and even misery it has brought into my life. I […]
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We’re excited to launch this new blog on our site as a forum to share our writers’ work, introduce our instructors, and share our thoughts on the writing process. This week, I’m thinking about Toni Morrison again since watching the moving documentary about her life as a writer, “The Pieces I Am.” Have you watched it yet? As usual, Toni’s words and novel excerpts caused both inspiration and envy. As the writer Crystal Wilkinson wrote, “Toni Morrison makes me want to both write forever and never write again. And it’s always been this way.” Read more...
November Iris by Linda Gibson
When I rounded the bend in the cul-de-sac in front of my house, I stopped dead in my tracks to stare at the most beautiful of blooms, an iris, planted in our community garden by my neighbor, a variety in Connecticut that always produces its clusters of flowers in early June, hearty and elegant with […]
Five Questions with Lisa Pierce Flores
1) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? Around the time I learned to read. My father and I were reading the Little House books together. My father often made up stories for me before bedtime or on long car trips, and he is a great tall-tale teller, so I think for […]
Five Questions with Lelah Baker-Rabe
1) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? Like a lot of writers, I’ve been writing since I was a kid. I came up with my first pen name around age nine–Luanna Claypoole, which would have made a pretty great historical romance author name, I always thought. But I didn’t seriously decide […]
Five Questions with Sarah Gold
1) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? From my first childhood realization that each of the stories I loved to read had actually been composed by another person. That ability seemed like a kind of magic to me. It still does. 2) What do you love most about the writing process? […]