Reasons for My Absence: Part 2
A few days after seeing my wife go through one of the most painful experiences that I’ve seen her go through, we had an okay New Year’s Eve celebration with our roommates. Going through too many trials to count in our time together, we were hopeful that we would...
Dawn Hosmer
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...
Cynthia Yoder
What lead you to write? When I was eight, I started typing my poems on my father’s Smith Corona typewriter. I only know this because my grandmother kept a poem, dated it – and mailed it to me when I was in my twenties! Both parents encouraged me and...
Katrina Sardis
What lead you to write? A: For me, writing became an emotional release as a child. I discovered writing as a way to speak without verbalizing all that I felt. Writing was my therapy, a way to cope with emotional turmoil. What is your preferred genre to write? A:...
Chrystal Stevens
What lead you to write? I had always been an avid reader and loved various genres of books. Sometimes I would read a book and not like how it turned out or I would say I would have had this character do this or that. So, I decided to...
Theresa Snyder
What lead you to write? My mother was a strong influence on my initiation into writing. I was bullied in school far before it was recognized and dealt with socially as it is today. She gave me a journal and encouraged me to write down my feelings. Then we...
Ana Rubio-Serrano
What lead you to write? My family. First, my grandmother, Anne always read books for kids to my brother and me. And she didn’t just read them, but played the roles of every single character: In a sweet voice, she spoke like the grandmother of Little Red Riding Hood....
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...
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...