on becoming a writer

Please welcome a fellow Gotham teacher to Bloomer. Sonya Chung is the author of the debut novel, Long for this World. Here's a post by Sonya:

Students often ask me, "When did you know you were a writer?"  The question is so laden, so bursting with adolescent angst. 

And I don't mean that in any kind of condescending way. I have come to think that we never really grow up, not in our most tender, verdant souls; that adulthood is a very nice and useful idea that allows us to function in a...