What Are the Seeds of Your Story?

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.

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, Sou'wester, Saw Palm: Florida Art & Literature, The Sand Hill Review, and The Best of the Sand Hill Review anthology.

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I'm a writer, a mother, and an accredited teacher. Born and raised in the cold Canadian North, I currently live on the sunny shores of Australia with my family.

I created Write It Sideways to help you--the aspiring writer-- improve your skills, develop your writing goals, and prepare for publication.

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