365 Affirmations for the Writer. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.365 Affirmations for the Writer

Writing is a journey. Every time we sit down to begin a piece or write the first chapter or the first line we are venturing into uncharted territory. 365 Affirmations for the Writer is about listening to those who have gone before us and letting them guide us with their insight, their own trials. By reading what others have said, we can survey the path before us, count the cost, and plunge ahead. Jane Hertenstein is a Pushcart nominee whose work has been recognized by the New York Times. She is the author of over 100 published stories both macro and micro: fiction, creative non-fiction, and blurred genre. In addition she has published two MG novels and a non-fiction project, Orphan Girl: The Memoir of a Chicago Bag Lady, which garnered national reviews. Jane is the recipient of a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. She teaches a workshop on Flash Memoir. Her life motto is Do Everything with your One Wild and Precious Life.

Jane Hertenstein is a prolific author of fiction and creative non-fiction for adults and children. She enjoys long-distance bike touring, waking up early to work, running along the lakefront, and working with the homeless on the streets of Chicago. Her middle-grade fiction book, Cloud of Witnesses, is based on her experiences substitute teaching in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in southern Ohio. About her writing: "It all started a long time ago. Trees and poems. During my early years I would climb a tree and write a poem about trees. In 4th grade I dabbled in fiction-until my teacher complained to my parents I was "wasting time" writing stories instead of doing my schoolwork. An early activist, as a teen I wrote letters to the local newspaper trying to block an interstate roadway to protect my favorite oak tree. I always loved reading Newbery-award winners. Favorite books are the place-markers in my life. That time I read only mysteries or autobiographies of ingenious Americans (code for "men," very few were about women). The summer I read Dickens or Louisa May Alcott, Austen and the Brontës. Then . . . I stumbled upon The Outsiders. The Outsiders switched on philosophical wondering and wandering. Next were Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, the Old and New Testaments. Craving realism, I read Grapes of Wrath and The Great Gatsby. There was something out there that I wanted-not sure what, yet it wavered on the horizon like heat on hot pavement. I would write my way toward it."