![]() “I’ve had enough therapy to kill a horse and I’m very solid in my self at this point.” Although she chose to fictionalize the poems, writing Because I Am Furniture still had difficult moments. ![]() “Having an abusive father is so far in the past at this point,” she says. In fact, she hadn’t even thought of them as fiction-the poems about abuse were drawn from her own past. “Two hours later I had the first 10 poems of what is now Because I Am Furniture.” When she read the poems at a critique, a member suggested that the poems could become a novel, something she hadn’t considered. Then one day, she sat down to write some poetry. “I found it unbearably hard,” she says with a laugh. She then realized that many of the novels she had loved and collected over the years-Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonsong, The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare, Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy-were children’s novels.Ĭhaltas joined a writing group and began trying to write picture books as a starting point. “I had always written poetry, but had done that on the side.” A fan of science fiction and murder mysteries, she initially considered writing an adult novel. But “writing kept creeping back in,” Chaltas says. ![]()
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