Please introduce yourself, your writing history, and your goals for writing in 150 words or fewer. Post in the comments below.
Writing Prompt #1
Please introduce yourself, your writing history, and your goals for writing in 150 words or fewer. Post in the comments below.
A Porch of Whittlers 
I am Ruth E. Holleran. I am a mother of six adult children and I recently retired from teaching classroom Music. I homeschooled my six children for 24 years, ten of which were through the Classical Conversations program that met once a week. I was an Oxford-style tutor in the junior high and high school levels for those years. Through that program I helped others learn to think and write and now it is my turn. Each week I write an installment in a series called The Tales of Walker, a letter to one of my children and spouses, and a blog post. I am reading books on writing and this fall I intend to begin the Institute of Children’s’ Literature program. At this point I am exploring children’s fiction but I am also open to writing non-fiction. I would like to see my name in print at least once.
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I am Dawn, I am a-stay at home/homeschool/soapmaker who has traveled with her kids and husband for the past seven years the last two of those years was non stop full-time Rving. In those two years we learned a lot about the history of the national parks and the plant life in each park. We were able to learn about several different biomes while traveling as well. I have been making soap for the past three years and this is the first year that I am actively selling at the snowtop mountain farmers market.
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I am 70, a nurse by trade, an equestrian by passion and a lover of words and books. I have written since the terrible days of adolescence when words poured out as I tried to make sense of my changing world, my emerging self. In the beginning there was poetry. Lots of it. Later, after my son died, there was the book of his death – an outpouring of grief and hope. A chronicle of swirling emotions, poems, lyrics, quotes and a hope that it could be helpful to someone else who has lost a child. And now, I have a wish to write something for children that is affirming, possibly inspirational, maybe entertaining and decidedly inviting.
I have no formal training.
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Rob says:
Rob Fisher here. I live in Weston in an old farmhouse with an old barn, pretending to be in the 1820s.
Most of my published writing has been nonfiction in the realm of psychology. I have written 2 1/4 novels as well in the genre of action/adventure/psychospiritual romance with a bent towards magical realism! Go figure!
When I grow up, I want to have a water buffalo in our barn. I spent a lot of time out hiking in nature when I am not answering and complaining about my endless emails. I teach a lot internationally, now mostly from our living room.
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Elise says:
Elise R. Hopkins earned their BFA in creative writing from Stephen F. Austin State University with a specialization in fiction. Their short stories have appeared in “Thema,” “The Drabblecast” and “The Colored Lens,” as well as their own blog and Patreon page. They are currently revising a speculative fiction novel about a down-on-his-luck salvager, his sentient but illegal land ship, and the misadventures they find themselves pulled into as they try to pay the bills each month and maybe, just maybe, find some bit of beauty to cling to in their often dystopian society. Elise also writes and workshops poetry with a local group of poets. Their poetry has appeared in a number of publications. When they aren’t writing, they are gaming, geocaching, watching gritty dramas, or enjoying cheese.
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