Susan Meyers is a children’s writer and the author of Callie and the Stepmother. She’s had several works published in children’s anthologies; she also loves writing Haiku, and has a new book coming out this fall.

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I’m always fascinated by people who claim to have writer’s block. For me, there are stories everywhere from the couple I saw tonight at a restaurant who never said a word to each other to the homeless man cradling a dog in the rain this evening. See what I mean?  There are stories everywhere.

I just finished teaching a summer class at the local community college, and every one of those students had an amazing story.  Nineteen-year-old Jamal’s mom has been in prison since he was 14, and he’s never known his dad.  His older brother raised him, and now that brother is serving 15 -20 for manslaughter and “other things.”  Jamal is in college now hoping to be an inspiration to his little brother, who is the first person in his family NOT to have ever been arrested.  (more…)