Writing Prompt: From Laundry to Literature

In this month’s essay, From Laundry to Literature, Cassie Stocks writes about the sheer grit and determination a writer, who wishes to create, must embody.

Have you ever felt torn between the demands of work and domesticity and your personal need to create and write? What mountain did you have to climb to pass from a state of domestic certitude to the sometimes frightening, frequently challenging state of being a writer?