NaNoWriMo Day #30 – Thinking of Myself as a Writer
By Brandon Marie Miller I’d never seen myself as a writer. I’d thought of myself as a reader, but not a writer. I was a nerdy…
By Brandon Marie Miller I’d never seen myself as a writer. I’d thought of myself as a reader, but not a writer. I was a nerdy…
By Jasmine Gower My hometown was never big enough for a library. Well, it was never big enough for a public library. When my parents built…
By Kate Watson I used to think that storytelling found me. One of my earliest memories is of my mom reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz…
By Nicki Jacobsmeyer Why do I write? Besides a legitimate reason to explain the voices in my head? All joking aside, the characters and stories in…
By Kat Vecchio I write about women’s lives. More specifically, women who lived outside the strictly drawn lines of decorum in the late nineteenth and early…
By Adrienne Proctor To me, writing has meant embracing my messiness. I’m not talking metaphorical mess. That would be a whole other post. No, I mean my…
By Christopher Thornton How one finds their way to the practice of any art or craft is often a bit of a mystery, but my path may…
By Rachel Smoka-Richardson I love October – colder weather, college football, and the exciting anticipation of NaNoWriMo. Although I’ve never “won” NaNo, I fully credit it…
By Daniel Wheatley For as long as I can remember, I’ve been interested in the written word (I accidentally found our family’s collection of Edgar Allan…
By Keith Yatsuhashi The kids are back in school. The days are shortening, the air is crisping, and Halloween decorations cover neighborhood houses. You all know…