How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?
My first bit of writing happened one day after either preschool or kindergarten (if it's possible for a person to learn to...
How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?
I was a WSC counselor for many years, and most of those years were as Director of the Wayne State College (WSC) Counseling...
How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?
Well, that’s a long story, but I’ll start by saying that I was always something of a storyteller. My mother has memories...
How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?
When I was around three or four, I loved to tell stories by drawing pictures. Once I could write, I would invent imaginative...
How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?
Throughout high school, I played guitar and tried to sing and sometimes tried to write songs, which feels like it was preparing...
How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?
I’ve always loved to read books and I think my admiration of books led me to want to be a writer. I remember writing my...
How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?
I covered high school sports for local newspapers while I was still in high school. I planned to be a journalism major in...
How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?
I have a small notebook with a Beatrix Potter sketch on the cover, and my mother’s handwriting begins in the front. I was...
How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?
Like so many writers, I was an avid reader before I started writing, and writing became a natural extension of that process....
How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?
I would say it was a convergence of things: I took a lit course from an Ursuline Sister at Rummel High School, who taught...
How did you get into writing? Do you remember the first piece of writing?
I mean, I started writing because I was in high school and had a lot to vent. The first poem I remember writing is a sad poem...
How did you get into writing?
Like many writers, it seems that I have always written: poems and stories as a child and young adult, just playing around with words. But it wasn’t until I was in my forties...