You Know You're a Writer When . . .

A collection of reflections on the nature of what it means to be a writer.

How do you find out what being a writer means to those who really are writers? You ask them. In this book, Adair Lara shares what the ink-stained, carpal-tunneled, slightly dazed, word struck people she knows had to say.

You know you're a writer when . . .

. . . You'll never forgive your parents for your happy childhood.

. . . The doctor tells you that you have terminal cancer, and you think, "I can use this."

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