Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
Oh you bet I do. I was 9 or 10 years old and it was a writing assignment in the fifth grade. The story was about a Big Foot monster in the Smokey Mountains and I got a B- on it. I was crushed.
What is your writing process?
I like to write out an entire crude story, a skeleton of sorts, then I go back and add the flesh to the bone.
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