Our brain is hard-wired for story. Great first sentences drag me into an author's space and, word-by-word, propel me to the end. There are so many examples out there but the following reads this week reminded me of why I love great first sentences. My grandmother was a mountain. (From Carmen Maria Machado's long-form essay …
Why I write.
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway It occurred to me on a cloudy Wednesday morning that I needed to escape. The kind of getaway akin to being so engrossed in a story I can’t help but cheat and flip to the end to …
Cathleen Calkins 