Too often, we look to the lives of others to anchor our fiction, assuming that our own lives aren’t worth literature. Thankfully, writers like Lily King, Thomas Wolfe, Ernest J. Gaines, Pat Conroy, and Zora Neale Hurston don’t agree. In this workshop, we’ll discuss methods to draw inspiration from our lives and personal stories, and I’ll use examples from my own writing to work backward from the page to discuss the personal germs that gave birth to publication. You’ll leave this workshop with exercises geared toward unlocking personal stories that will find their way into your work.