A Writing Journey, Summarized

I started writing The Magician’s Doll several years ago.

My writing repertoire at the time consisted of a short story in college, some comedy sketches, and a whole lot of journal writing. I learned from my journal writing that most of what I had to say was as interesting as balancing a checkbook. From the short story and comedy sketches, I learned that writing, at least for me, is hard. Really hard. Like ‘forget this!” hard.

Then I took a sketch writing workshop led by Ranjit Souri (Ranjit teac...