organize life through story
11th August 2016 | for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, writing, the creative life, design your life, Julia Fierro, writing conferences |
"There are many factors that create a writer and the most significant is need. I often joke, when talking at literary conferences and events, that if we, the writers, could choose to stop, we would. For most of us, the need to make sense of and organize life through story, particularly its traumatic moments, was born many years before we penned our first title."
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