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Kim Wells

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in Elgin, Illinois, The United States
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Kim wrote her first critically acclaimed (if you call her fourth grade teacher a critic, and she does) short story when she was 9 years old. It was about Christmas in a Cave, and it featured such topical, ground-breaking subjects as homelessness & cave dwelling. She's been writing ever since. The state of publication depends on who you ask.

She has a Ph.D. in Literature, with specialties in American Lit, Women Writers, Feminism, Sci-Fi/Fantasy & Film Studies but please don't hold any of that against her. She sometimes teaches academic writing and how to read literature at a university in her hometown and tries to convince college students that it really is cool to like poetry.

She lives in the South, has twin children (one girl, one boy) and
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Kim Wells I haven't had writer's block as a fiction writer, but when I wrote my dissertation, I had long periods where I wouldn't be able to write. I would proc…moreI haven't had writer's block as a fiction writer, but when I wrote my dissertation, I had long periods where I wouldn't be able to write. I would procrastinate like crazy. It was a sign, I think, that I just wasn't ready to finish. To be a "grown up."

For fiction, I try to write a little bit every day. Even if it's just a few hundred words, if you write every day, you keep in practice. And if I can't get a little writing out, I research, do a Pinterest folder for the story, or, believe it or not, take a nap. A lucid nap can add a story element better than you realize. (less)
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Ghosts/Haunted

So this is about ghosts, but not in the way it seems at first. 

It's not a "spooky season" pre-Halloween kind of ghost, or a horror story movie night kind of ghost. It's about being haunted in the way we all really eventually are, and these kinds of ghosts absolutely exist. If you've never seen one, just wait, because you probably will eventually. Unfortunately. You, too, will probably be haunted. 

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