The Benefits of a Dare, a guest post by Jo Knowles

The Benefits of a Dare, a guest post by Jo Knowles

It’s funny how stories find their way to me now, in comparison to when I first began writing three decades ago. When I was a child and teen, I read to make sense of my world. In my early twenties and thirties, I wrote to do the same thing. My early work was a re-imagination of my own childhood and adolescent struggles. Then, as I raised my son, I drew ideas from my adult observations (middle school carpools were an endless supply of material!). …