Browsing Tag

writing communities

Uncategorized

Lorna Loves to Write

26th September 2011

Lorna loves to write.  Her first short story, written on a yellow legal pad when she was six, starred a family of mice.  The next year, she wrote a poem about black roses, which caused her teacher to request a meeting with her parents.  Lorna has been trying to cheer the hell up ever since. She was a kid on a New York Island, and grew up in the Highlands of Scotland.  While there, she couldn’t wait to get off…

Continue Reading

Uncategorized

The Bridge, or How My Brain Works

14th September 2010

I write because I can’t not write I think in sentences Sometimes, even with punctuation. My favourite is ! When I write I am the most myself When I’m not writing My brain tweaks a little bit Just enough to say Get back to it! Connections are made When there are words On a page In the world In a story Or in my brain And I write Because that’s how it works. I’m participating in And Now You Write,…

Continue Reading