A little slice-of-life essay put her on trackBreakthrough: A writer's success story
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April 6, 2010 I began dabbling at writing when I was in my early 40s, but as a single mother working night shift in a factory, I couldn’t write in any meaningful way until my four sons were grown and away from home. By then I was 50 and had begun writing seriously —usually small slice-of-life essays about my childhood in rural Ohio.
However, when I finished my first essay, “Caboose,” I shelved it for more than a year. No one, I felt, would want to read about a young girl watching a train (more specifically, a caboose) weaving its way across an Ohio landscape. |
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