Smashwords: When did you first start writing?
Almost as soon as I learned to write. I was writing
(bad) poetry when I was eight years old, and "stories" before that. I
kept a journal before I knew what a journal was--and burned it when what
it contained was too painful, troubling, embarrassing, or simply too
real to deal with at a tender age. I wish I had not for I can't remember
what that precocious child found too troubling to keep around. This (no
longer precocious) adult would like to know--and smile (mostly) and
perhaps shed a tear or two for the unrequited love, frustrations or deep
truths learned too young in life to process in a more productive way. I
wrote a lot back then. Doubtless it was full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing (apologies to The Bard). Some things don't much
change.
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