Terry arranged a public reading for my class, “Crafting the Story” at Beyond Baroque.
I’d been writing less than a year at that time and couldn’t believe she would want me to do any such thing. I practiced telling her “no” for a week. Then when the time came for me to mention I wasn’t going to do it, she looked into my face and said, “The story is compelling.” It was this, and the fact that she had this great idea that we all do a rehearsal that made me do it after all. I will never forget that day, the day that I decided I would call myself a writer. The day I read my work in front of an audience and they gasped.
Writers At Work 