position is that you tend to fall back. so when i decided to become a writer, i did not dip one toe into the water. i leaped off that cliff. there was no plan b. then years later i found myself at the edge of another cliff. oddly, pay it forward had become my plan b. if book sales on the newer titles were not enough to live on, maybe i could just make a living talking about the pay it forward concept. it would be something to fall back on. then again, so would nursing or plumbing, but what happened to the “i am going to be a writer 