First Draft - Best of 2021 Diane Seuss
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Writing in Jesus
I started writing in ae, early adolescence. I experienced jesus as a threat. After my dad died, ministers would come to our house to try to lure us into salvation. So once i started arguing and sorof knocking down the arguments of christianity, then that turn of my mind took over. And it was typing class where i had a very cool typing teacher who basically said, do whatever you want to me in particular. Because i wanted type poems and that's where i started writing poems in typing class with no left margin, with no rules. That's what i do when i was offered the typewriter, images, thoughts, ideas could move directly from my mind
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