Why a writer?

by Dietrich Kalteis
I missed out on the question why I became an author a couple weeks ago, and since this week’s a free for all, here’s my chance.
Being a writer had been a dream since I was a teenager and penned a draft of a novel in longhand. That one never got past the shoebox of handwritten looseleaf pages stuffed under the bed, and it took quite a bit more time for me to get a novel published and to take myself seriously as an author. I’d talked about it off and on for years, but real lif...