A.T. Haessly
I started in High School when a lot of my English classes had us write creative short stories or revise other stories.
I had three English teachers in particular that really drove me to want to write for a living. Some of the practices that one teacher had us do really got the creative juices flowing.
"Write a story as a metaphor for something else. You can't talk about what it is you are comparing in the story." It seemed a simple idea. I got to work on a story about the walking dead (the usual zombie type story) that had become a unified mob working toward the capitol of the nation. This story was written because a family member had cancer, and the pain and suffering that such a disease can cause seemed a good comparison.
I wrote that short story, and something clicked. I liked the way it felt when I wrote how I saw things. I liked how people enjoyed what I wrote. And so I keep writing, because it just feels right.
I had three English teachers in particular that really drove me to want to write for a living. Some of the practices that one teacher had us do really got the creative juices flowing.
"Write a story as a metaphor for something else. You can't talk about what it is you are comparing in the story." It seemed a simple idea. I got to work on a story about the walking dead (the usual zombie type story) that had become a unified mob working toward the capitol of the nation. This story was written because a family member had cancer, and the pain and suffering that such a disease can cause seemed a good comparison.
I wrote that short story, and something clicked. I liked the way it felt when I wrote how I saw things. I liked how people enjoyed what I wrote. And so I keep writing, because it just feels right.
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