by Bunny Terry | May 25, 2021 | Being a Writer, Writing Practice, Writing Prompts
I remember. In her magical book, Lift, Kelly Corrigan writes, “I heard once that the average person barely knows ten stories from childhood and those are based more on photographs and retellings than memory.” When I read that, I immediately turned to Toby...
by Bunny Terry | Feb 23, 2021 | Being a Writer, Daily Gratitude, Writing Practice
I’m grateful that someone told me to write a thousand words a day. That this was the best way to become a writer. Someone somewhere taught me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed to write. (It was probably Natalie Goldberg in Wild Mind.) That creativity wasn’t...
Bunny Terry is a native New Mexican who grew up on a farm in northeastern New Mexico. Her first writing job was typing stories on index cards on her family’s Underwood, stories that were uncannily like the ones she read over and over in O Ye’ Jigs and Julips, her favorite childhood book. No one thought to save those index cards for posterity, although there is the theory sarcastically circulated by her siblings that they will certainly be worth millions someday. 