Kristina McMorris
Jun 20, 2018: For most of my life, I had no plans to become a creative writer—that is, until my grandparents’ WWII courtship…
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Read more...Barbara O’Neal
I can't even remember a time when I didn't shape the world around me into stories. Even as a five-year-old, before I could physically write, I sang story-songs to my sisters, and I started writing novels in notebooks in the fifth grade when I was bored with my classes. Telling…
Read more...Chrissy Lessey
Words have always fascinated me. They can wreak havoc or bring peace. They are the storms and the rainbows. When put together in just the right way, they become portals to limitless travel, thrilling adventures, or raucous belly laughs. Even as a child, I recognized the unique power of words…
Read more...Carter Wilson
I literally started writing on one specific day. I had no background in writing and was contentedly entrenched in a consulting career. On this particular day, I was thirty-three and sitting in an eight-hour continuing-education class. Out of boredom, I wrote the following question on my notepad: If three people are…
Read more...Liv Constantine
Liv Constantine is the pen name of USA Today and WSJ bestselling authors and sisters Lynne Constantine and Valerie Constantine. At heart, all writers are readers, and love of literature came to both of us young. We grew up making weekly trips to the library, passing books around between our…
Read more...My Salute to English Teachers [as featured on Teaching Channel]
In 1949 when I was twenty-one years old I took a creative writing course at the New School in Manhattan taught by Professor Don M. Wolfe. He had been my freshman English teacher at New York University, where I graduated in 1947, just two months shy of my twentieth birthday.…
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