How I Use Powerful Life Stories as Fuel for My Writing

Whether we write fiction or non, we need input for memorable output

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I had a life-changing moment in high school, but there was a two-year delay in the life-changing part of the experience. It was one of those typical assemblies where some guest speaker shares educational slides about how bad it is to do drugs or join a gang — the kind most teenagers tune-out and the kind…