What Are the Seeds of Your Story?

December 24, 2009

Where do our stories start?

What are the seeds from which everything else grows?

Find out by clicking over to my latest guest contribution at Fuel Your Writing, one of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers 2009/2010.

What Are the Seeds of Your Story?

Don’t forget to leave a comment telling us about your own writing process.

Suzannah Windsor Freeman is the creator and chief editor of Write It Sideways, and author of The Busy Mom's Guide to Writing. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Grist: The Journal for Writers, Saw Palm: Florida Art & Literature, The Sand Hill Review, and The Best of the Sand Hill Review anthology.

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