colds and what’s for dinner tonight? yours is some variation on that, i’m sure. but if i don’t make writing fiction a part of my full catastrophe, am i really a writer?
when i was young, from age 8 or 9 on, i wrote. i wrote a neighborhood newspaper and i kept a journal and i wrote short stories and i wrote poetry. i kept writing through high school and i wrote when i got to college. i remember vividly during my senior year when a friend mentioned that she’d been doing some non-school-related writing lately, that she was pleased with her writing, that she liked being a writer. when i 