By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
For someone who doesn’t think of herself as much of a speaker, I’ve been very busy with speaking engagements in the last few months. I’ve got less than two weeks before my next talk, this time at a North Carolina high school. An English teacher invited me (I have a very difficult time turning down high school English teachers…my father was one) to speak during lunchtime to a group of kids who were interested in creative writing.
I asked the teacher what she’d like me to speak on and she mentioned a variety of different topics. Then she said, “They mostly struggle with the how of it.”
Which I remember. I remember poring over writing books and thinking, okay, this is all fine, but how do I do this?
The sad thing is that now I’m in the same boat—the how is no longer a problem, but how do you explain how?Continue reading