84-year-old graduates from West Virginia Wesleyan College

BUCKHANNON, W.Va (WDTV) – 84-year-old Heather Humphries completed her grasp’s diploma at West Virginia Wesleyan School. She was honored on the faculty’s 131st graduation on Could 7.

Humphries mentioned she was impressed to return to highschool due to her private writing targets.

She mentioned she had been a journalist for a few years and wished to sort out a fiction novel.

“I considered an attention-grabbing factor, a narrative to inform about my household. Three generations in China, and I assumed effectively. I’ll simply write this e book,” Humphries defined.

Nevertheless, the method was not as straightforward as she thought.

“This entire journey of going by way of journalism to fiction to inventive writing is a troublesome one,” she mentioned.

Humphries determined to enroll within the Grasp of High-quality Arts program for Inventive Writing and targeted on fiction writing.

Humphries added COVID-19 pandemic compelled her out of her consolation zone.

She needed to learn to use Zoom and do all her courses remotely.

Whereas incomes her diploma, she began writing her novel as a part of her thesis.

She deliberate to take what she realized to complete her e book.

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