Q: Have you always wanted to be a writer?
A: Honestly? No. I know there are many stories out there of people who started writing as children and completed their first novel draft in their teens.
That’s not me.
While I’ve always loved reading, I never felt like I had stories to tell. Then, in my early thirties, a story idea popped into my head and refused to go away. I decided to write it down, if only to get it out of my mind.
I quickly discovered that my writing abilities weren’t up to the task.
Determined to do the idea justice, I set about honing my craft, and the strangest thing happened. It was like a mental floodgate had opened; the more I wrote, the more ideas I had.
I’ve been writing ever since.
J.J. Drew’s story “Clod-Shodden”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 10 April 2020.
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