West Virginia

To hell with the election, I'm blown away that there's somewhere in the country where you can rent a studio apartment for $250 a month! A starving young writer's paradise. Go work in Alaska for a summer and live 9 months writing in WVa on what you save up. At least that was the strategy when I was a struggling young writer. Live as cheaply as possible so you have as much time to write as possible. Do young writers still do this? I haven't seen many but then I only see the ones in my classes. Many of them drive a better car than I do ha ha. And when I was their age, I was living in a tree house in Berkeley!