The Alchemy of Writing

By Cindy Eastman

So, I gave this prompt to a couple of my writing groups recently—Does your writing change you? How?

I was wondering myself if it was true: has my own writing changed me?

Having come to this vocation late in life, I only allowed myself to say “I’m a writer” once my first book was published over ten years ago. But after thirty-plus years of facilitating writing groups and workshops and announcing that “writing is simply a process by which we make meaning of our lived e...