Tag: fiction

What lead you to write? My father’s drilling business had us moving around the U.S. a lot. I was always in the back seat with a pen and a small notebook writing little stories and adventures. So when I was done with working on drilling rigs it was just...

What lead you to write? I’ve enjoyed writing for as long as I can remember. When I was in 2nd grade, I wrote my first book The Lame Girl and The White Steed. It was such a sad, depressing little book. In high school, I wrote boatloads of poetry...

What lead you to write? I was the youngest of three kids, so I spent a lot of time alone. My older siblings didn’t spend much time with me, so I spent my days making up and acting out my own stories. By the time I reached middle school,...

What lead you to write? My 4th grade teacher read some of my creative writing for class and encouraged me to write more and even enter a contest to be included in a journal. I was published in the journal and have wanted to write ever since. What is...

What lead you to write? An asthmatic childhood that kept me inside reading a wide variety of books and a vivid imagination that conjured up my own stories. Was there a particular person that influenced you to pursue writing? Not exactly. But a sixth-grade teacher (who used to post...

1.What lead you to write? I’ve always written. When I was young, I wrote mostly poetry and as I grew it just became a part of me—a poet. I love stories and story-tellers. As a child, I sat around the kitchen table and listened to my grandmother, mother and...

What lead you to write? My earliest memory of enjoying writing was at the age of eight during a grammar test for English. I wrote a story about a hermit crab, which I didn’t finish because I ran out of time. The comments that came back from my teacher...