I was eight and journaling and writing bad poetry. I didn’t think then about “being a writer”; I just was one.
For me, fleshing out ideas and revising my work are the most frustrating and correspondingly rewarding aspects of writing.
Really, everything. But the most gratifying aspect of teaching is seeing writers take feedback and make it their own, and seeing their work improve as a result.
On Becoming a Novelist, by the late John Gardner, and Hold the Dark, by William Giraldi.
“Craft enables art.” From Steering the Craft, by Ursula Le Guin.
Libby Waterford is the author of over two dozen contemporary romance novels and novellas under two pen names, including the Never a Bride and Sawyer’s Cove: The Reboot series. The former President of the Connecticut Chapter of Romance Writers of America®, Libby teaches classes on genre fiction, romance writing, and self-publishing. When did you know you wanted to
Madelin Parsley grew up in the panhandle of Nebraska. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Vanderbilt University, and her short stories have appeared in Ploughshares and Narrative Magazine. She’s currently working on a novel about five siblings, two small towns, and a family dynamic that is shaped and reshaped
