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How to Start Writing
How I started writing and 21 prompts to get you started too.
HOW I STARTED
My passion for writing was borne from my passion for reading. I’ve been a voracious reader since about three years old, my love affair with storytelling and word-play ignited by Dr. Seuss’s One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. I was happy turning pages in the corners of my school library and the local Barnes & Noble. A book was always in my hands. Soon, I was reading well beyond my age group, deep diving into “adult” literature before the age of 10.
But it wasn’t until I was 11 years old that it occurred to me that I could write. The inciting incident was mishearing something my mom told me: I thought she’d said that a classmate of mine was writing a book on Barbara Bush, but what she’d actually said was that my classmate was reading a book about the former first lady. In any case, I felt the slow-burn of jealousy…and defiance.
“I can write a book too!”
And the rest, as they say, is herstory.
CHASING THE MUSE
I spent untold hours every week seated in front of my clunky Compaq desktop, typing away stories inspired by the movies, novels and comic books I loved. I would read interviews in magazines and rewrite them as if I were the interviewer. I designed…
