NaNoWriMo Day #19 – The Calling
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 what that means, right? It means another...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo Day #21 – If you want to be a writer, go write
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 Poe tales at age 8 and was halfway through its...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo Day #22 – A NaNoWriMo-versary to remember
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 for shaping me for the writer...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo Day #24 – I write because I love storytelling
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 be a little more unusual than most. I come from no family of writers or...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo Day #25 – Writing helped me embrace my messiness
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 literal messiness. In my everyday life I’m...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo Day #26 – Writing can be messy, but it helps make sense of the...
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 twentieth century; the circus performers and...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo Day #27 – I write because I can’t imagine not writing
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 my mind are brewing to one day come to life. Some have...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo Day #28 – How I became a storyteller
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 to my family on a road trip. I was on the edge of my middle seat...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo Day #29 – I write because I need to
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 their second house on a cheap plot of land in an agricultural...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo 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 history girl, a stay-at-home-mom with a history degree, but not a writer. I...
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