My kids know that they get to ask people to read their stories and help make them better, while my grown-up students have forgotten this, how much help we need, deserve, and can ask for. My grown-ups know that if you are a writer, everything that happens is grist for the writing mill, for transformation, and just as important, for revenge. Also, you will have great stories and details to heap into your subconscious mind’s buckboard, for later literary use or blackmail.
