When someone asks you, how did you do it? How did you become a Real Writer? This question popped up in my mailbox yesterday, and I am totally psyched. It’s so cool to be asked. My first impulse was to trudge through the story of my life: reading, thinking like a writer, the impulse to blurt every thought that flutters through your head, applying news-deadline discipline to writing fiction, joining writers’ groups to maintain a creative buzz, pouring through how-to books... read more
