Before handing pencil and paper to a group of inmates who attended one of his recent writing workshops in jail, Nate Johnson shared three things about his past.
He has battled depression and anxiety for much of his life.
“And I used to be a prosecutor,” Mr. Johnson disclosed, adding a quick caveat.
Immediately after hearing a simple prompt, inmates were told to write furiously, without interruption, for five minutes.
The only goal was to turn the sequence of thoughts generated by each prompt into a string of sentences without stopping to think.
Persons:
Nate Johnson, ” Mr, Johnson
Locations:
Minneapolis