There’s a Story Between the Lines

Michelle Renee Kidwell
2 min readSep 13, 2023

What Compelled You to Write Your Story.

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The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

Frank Zappa

It is impossible to categorize all writers into one neat group; everyone’s stories have a story behind them. You may have been inspired by a movie you saw, a news headline or a book you read, or perhaps by something that happened to you sometime in the past that left a lasting impression on you. For some writing comes naturally, for others it comes a little harder.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

Octavia E. Butler

No matter what we write, whether fiction or nonfiction, we each bring something unique to the table, a story that only we can tell, in the way we tell it. Even if we think similarly about some aspects of life, our take on the same subject is likely to be vastly different.

Each day has a story to — deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.

Eduardo Galeano

The story I write today will be different from the story I wrote five years ago…

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