Tag: reading

Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

What lead you to write? My parents always felt I had a talent for writing, but I didn’t have the confidence until I had a strong intuition to try writing my first book about my childhood experiences on our family’s riding school. What is your preferred genre to write?...

Ginger Elinburg

What lead you to write? I needed a place to escape and writing gave me that place. Was there a particular person that influenced you to pursue writing? No. I’ve been writing in some form, poetry and short horror in the beginning, since I was in middle school. What...

Nina Romano

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...

JAnn Bowers

What lead you to write? When I first heard Robert Frost’s poetry at the age of 12, I knew then I wanted to be a poet. Was there a person that influenced you to pursue writing? My kids keep me moving forward in my writing. The are always encouraging...

Loraine Conn

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...

Louisa Ellemind

What lead you to write? My love for stories and words. My parents were highly encouraging when it came to my reading and my writing, and so was my teacher, so that definitely played a big part in it.  Was there a particular person that influenced you to pursue...

Louise Sorensen

What led you to write? Hi Aaron. I’m a visual person, and sketched and painted all my life. Until early January, 1998. We had an ice storm that coated everything in an inch and a half of ice and took out the power for five million people. For us...

Soulla Christodoulou

What lead you to write? Hi Aaron and thank you for having me! I guess I’ve always been a writer but taking my writing to the next level with a view of writing a book, well that all came to fruition in January 2015, when I joined a Creative...

Review of Dolores Claiborne

Dolores Claiborne, written by Stephen King, is the story of a woman under investigation for the murder of her charge, whom she was caregiver to for many years. She lays out a story of how her boss came to her demise and how she, herself, tried to save her...