I've been writing since I was eleven and first realized that books came from crazy people like me writing their ideas down.
I never went to school, deciding when college became an option that an aspiring novelist could teach herself everything she needed to know, and avoid student debt at the same time. I still haven't decided if that was a great decision or not.
I set out to read as many books about writing as I could find, joined every critique group that existed in my area, and took as many classes from the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis as I could attend. I also r more...
