About Tess Callahan
Accessing Your Inner Well
“Writers at the Well” is an interview series that invites authors to share the intimate inner workings of their creative flow. Why the title?
As a college student I hung a print of “The Broken Pitcher” by William-Adolphe Bouguereau in my dorm room. Intuitively I sensed the girl was me. Her well was full, yet she couldn’t access it.
As I made half-successful efforts to write and paint, I felt cut off from some deeper power, my core me-ness, the private voice that lived at the bottom of the well.