Dear Writers,

When author Kevin O’Malley visited Meadow two years ago, he said that he writes because he likes to “control people’s minds.” When you put words on a page, you create a new reality. If your words are inviting enough, readers will enter it and never want to leave. You don’t have to be a professional writer to do this. If you can write clearly and powerfully, you too can “control people’s minds.”

Writing clearly doesn’t require a magic gift or special powers. It mostly requires practice and hard work. Writers are people who write everyday. Writers are people who spend a lot of time writing and even more time rewriting and even more time thinking about what they’ve written and ways they can make it better. Writers are people who care about language. And writers are people who are always starving for the food that is other writers’ words.

We’re all writers, and we all have stories to tell. I can’t wait to hear yours.
Sincerely,
Mr. Heimbuck