I write because I have stories to tell. As a shy young girl, I was afraid to talk to people, but I could write. I poured my heart onto paper, creating new worlds for myself and occasionally for my teachers who encouraged me to write more. Later, I became a lawyer who integrated peacemaking and […]
The writing bug hit me at seven years old, when I created a story about ninjas stealing my mother’s car, and it never really let go. Writing is the main thing that enables me to make sense of this weird world, and I often discover what or how I think about a given subject as […]
Growing up, I wanted to be an actress. I studied theater in college and even spent time at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. When I realized I wasn’t very good and didn’t have the desire to get any better, I had to ask myself why exactly I’d pursued acting for so long. What about it intrigued […]
Like almost every writer I know, I was an avid childhood reader: Tom Sawyer, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, etc. The moment at which I decided to try my own hand is indelible: as a romantic-hearted, muddle-headed fifteen-year-old, I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise (itself a romantic-hearted, muddle-headed novel) on the brick […]
To me, the most rewarding part of being a writer is the actual writing. I love crafting stories. I love wrestling with plot. I love pitting characters against one another, or turning their worlds upside down just when they’re getting the hang of things. It’s the most fun you can have without risking arrest. www.heidiheilig.com
I hate writing. I hate the process of it. The loneliness. I hate staring at a blank page knowing it must be filled. Yes, must. That’s the key word. I’m convinced that no one writes because they want to. Why would anyone put themselves through the process? What level of masochist am I as a […]
I always fashioned myself a storyteller to some degree—before writing it was with pictures, drawings. I wanted to be an animator at Disney when I was a kid: I drew methodically, wrote and sold comic books at lunch in elementary school, made my own cartoon trading cards in middle school. But then something changed. It was the […]
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