Why write?

I started writing murder mysteries starring my third grade classmates when I was nine. I’d spend hours on the family computer playing around on Microsoft Word with my old pal, Clippy, as my editor.

Remember this guy?

Eighteen years later, I decided to take a stab at blogging. I was a millennial facing a quarter-life existential crisis, I had a MacBook, time to kill, and thoughts to voice–what could go wrong? My first blog, String Room Thoughts, was an experiment is regaining my creati...