![]() ![]() ![]() Then when I started the MFA, that’s when I really started to think, “Okay, I’ve been given two years to focus, to be trained. I used those stories to then submit and apply to an MFA program-and I got in. Then I started taking these evening writing classes when I was 24, and I would submit short stories to them. And I just felt really adrift, to be honest. I had a boyfriend who was an architect and was incredibly directed and had such a clear vision of what he wanted to make in the world. And in my early twenties, all I did was write copy. When I graduated from college, I took a job full-time as a fashion copywriter. I love short stories, but for me novel writing felt like the highest form that I could reach as a writer. I fell in love with novels at such a young age, and that’s what got me interested in reading. I took creative writing workshops and was mostly writing short stories, but I always felt called to novel writing. But I didn’t know how to be a writer, or what that meant, or how to make a living. I feel like writing is the river and reading is the sea, and everything leads back to that. And, of course, in reading- I think all writing stems for reading. ![]() I always was really interested in writing. I had them in a little stack and would do poetry readings to my parents. I would write poems on it when I was younger and then print them out. We had what was a word processor in our house. How or when did you realize you’d become a writer and did you always want to be a novelist? ![]()
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