Jalpan Kapatel

classes a semester at Tri-County Technical College in Pendleton, SC, and yet managed to write a stream of poems and stories. It took two decades of steady work before the publication of his first novel. When I committed to the 52-Week Writing Challenge through The Writing Cooperative in January, I had already made some big life changes— I had quit my teaching job at the two-year college where I worked in South Carolina, and my son and I moved to join my husband in North Carolina, where he had been working since August. I think it's fair to say that my career evolved gradually. When I began my academic life it very much followed the traditional route of PhD, postdoctoral research, at University College London then Surrey, then I secured a five-year research fellowship after which I became a full time (tenured) academic lecturer and moved up the academic ranks to professor by teaching and conducting research in my field of theoretical physics. I did all the usual stuff of publishing my research, attending conferences and applying for grants. Some writers have no personal experience with the story's subject, but they have professional experience. For example, if I were interested in writing about voting rights for people convicted of felonies, I could cite my legal education and experience as relevant to my ability to research the legislative histories of state laws that limit voting rights. How does someone make t

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