I tried very hard not to be a writer. This may seem odd to you, but it does happen to a significant minority of us. I don't mean I didn't *write;* I wrote all the time. But as Whitney Houston put it, “Do you want to be a singer? Or do you want to be a singer in show business?” There's a difference between writing to write and writing to publish. I didn't want to reveal myself. When I lived in a dorm during college, I never put anything up on my door. I'd hear people standing in the hall: “Does anyone live there?”
I tried very hard not to be a writer, but I failed. So here I am.
