Growing the Roots (BLOOM), on Becoming a Novelist
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“My adult life before becoming a published novelist was like the questing roots that grow wide and far to suck in the moisture and minerals that make the apple tree’s limbs blossom. The deeper and richer and greater the roots, the stronger the tree, the healthier the flower.”
Experience Required: Growing the Roots, an essay for BLOOM, is about having my first novel published after having had children and a career as a writer of short nonfiction.
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