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Elisa C's avatar

i can relate--a lot! my goal since childhood was to be a (fiction) writer. After college i taught adult literacy. Went back yo school. Moved to LA & did proofreading & copy editing. Taught adult ESL. Started teaching college writing to nonnative speakers during grad school. Moved to CO & taught college comp & business writing & freelance copy editing. Started writing again, a little. Moved back East & started grad program 3 (didn't complete #2) --an MFA in creative writing--yay! Goal? to teach creative writing fulltime instead of comp! (where did that other dream go?) Graduated at 40.

Immediately took a weekend training for leading a specific type of writing workshops totally mot like those in grad school, which i swore never to run... tried to continue my poetry but bad at sending thjngs out more than once... Ran writing workshops for 11 of 13 years while working in a psych hospital (?! an unexpected direction change!) Trained further to run stress management & resilience trainings. Never did. Did a few more workshops until both my job ended finally & my parents began to die off... Finally writing! Memoir. Id like to finish things but learned im ADD (explains my life even more than the trauma crap!🤪) so i dont beat myself up about it. What i will NOT do, is run writing workshops or teach college writing again! I am in my sixties & its now or never! 😂😂

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Charisse Tyson's avatar

Love you, Jordan. I'm sure your new book will be fantastic. You have a special place in my heart as my first writing teacher. ❤️

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