Writing Prompt Question & Answer

A Horror Writer’s Response to “Deep Dive Into Your Writing”

Or — how I got from here to there…

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Fiction writers sometimes struggle here on Medium, where folks seem to be more in the market for self-help articles. Some of us, I am sure,

This article is in response to Subhi Najar’s writing prompt specifically calling upon fiction writers to answer a series of questions about their own writing.

Deep Dive into Your Writing

So, without further ado, let’s get to the questions and answers, shall we?

1. When did you start writing? Is there a specific story?

Wow. This is a harder question to answer than you might think. The problem is, whenever a fiction writer a question, they are going to stop and come up with an answer.

This is another way of saying that they are going to stop and tell a story — and sometimes the writer finds it darned near impossible to stop at one story. In fact, I’ve got several stories that explain when, where, and why I started…