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How and why I became a writer
(Photo by Helen Montoya Henrichs.) I wrote my first book when I was five. It sounded a whole lot like Little House on the Prairie, because my mom had just finished reading the series to me. There were two sisters named Laura and Mary and a ma and pa and a little dog,...
To fiction or to nonfiction?
I heard what they all said. Pick one. Pick one for a major: creative writing or journalism. Pick one for a focus: poetry or real life stories. Pick one for a blog: fiction or nonfiction. It never felt right for me to pick one, but I signed on to the belief that it was...
How to make a dream come true: do.
A dream latched itself to my heart, and it just wouldn’t let go. All through those years, when there was only one and then only two and then three while we waited for four and five, I held my dream in desperate hands, but I never took one step closer to it. And then,...
How to not become a creator
(Photo by Helen Montoya Henrichs.) How to not become a creator 1. Listen to those voices in your head. The ones that tell you you’re not qualified and you’re not good enough and they would all just laugh at you and no one cares what or if ever you create. These voices...
Ink Well 10.8.14: The art that still lives
Prompt for Oct. 8, 2014 “Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the Eternity of Thought! That giv’st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! not in vain, By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of Childhood didst Thou intertwine for me...
Ink Well 10.1.14: Lurching into leaving
Prompt for October 1, 2014 Word: Driving Parameters: Write for 15 minutes without stopping Lurching into leaving Stop, start, stop, start, we screeched it all the way down the highway. It was not driving so much as lurching. She drove his truck, mustard yellow,...
Ink Well 9.24.14: Free life
Prompt for Sept. 24, 2014 “Freedom’s a pattern.” -Richard Wilbur Free life All these chains wrap hands and feet link by link by link and she can name them all A father who left and never came back A need to prove she was worth the coming back An inability o...
Write a GREAT Book Even When Your Time is Limited
