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When You Lose the Life You Knew, Can You Create a New One? | Laura Van Wormer
What happens when the thing you’ve spent your life doing suddenly becomes something you can no longer do?
In this episode of Thought Atlas, I sit down with Laura Van Wormer, a best-selling novelist, former editor, and creator of the serialized fiction podcast The Class of ’74.
Laura had wanted to be a writer since high school. She eventually became a published novelist and says she wrote 14 novels. But her life changed dramatically after a devastating head-on car accident involving a drunk driver left her with extensive injuries and a long recovery.
What she didn’t realize at first was that…
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