For the month of November, All the Blog’s a Page (AtBaP) is talking about INSPIRATION! We want to know what inspires writers to put pen to paper or fingers to keys and spin the stories they tell. Up next this month is a writer I’m just coming to know, but now that I’ve read some of her work, I’m eager to see what she writes next, short story writer and aspiring novelist, Christin Haws!

When asked Where do you find inspiration to create your stories, Haws began by stating, “You always hear about people getting their brilliant ideas in the shower. Mine come to me while I’m doing laundry. Our washer is in the basement and we don’t have a dryer, so that means the clothes are either hung on the outside line if it’s nice or, in the winter, slung over the line that’s strung up downstairs. I’ve gotten several story ideas while pulling wet clothes out of a washer that was made sometime before I was born. I not only got the original idea for “Such a Pretty Face” while doing laundry, but it was also while I was doing that chore that I got the idea that saved the story from the trash can after more than a year of revisions and rewrites on it. I don’t know what about doing laundry in that chilly, concrete room that inspires my creative process. Maybe it’s because my short stories are all horror stories and my basement looks like it could easily be a set in a horror film.”

Stop by AtBaP to read more about Christin Haws’ inspirations, to learn more about where you can find her in cyberspace, and to read an excerpt of one of her short stories!

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