Feb
10

Cara Sue Achterberg

Originally published in WriteOn! Summer 2018 Issue

Why Do You Write?

This is a question I always pose to my creative writing students. Many are earnest, ex­cited, anxious adults who hope to write a novel. They arrive in the classroom with crisp blank notebooks and their favorite pen (as instructed), but what they really bring are their dreams. They set them down gently in the scarred chairs of the high school geography classroom where we meet.