Becoming A Writer

      Even before I could write, I wanted to be a writer.

      I can remember inventing stories and telling them to my parents in Kindergarten or earlier. I remember my invisible friend Memos (where did I come up with THAT name?) the Space Cowboy. Space Cowboys was my very first story, and of course it was sci-fi. I think the main character was named Dodge?

      The memories are hazy, and the originals lost to time, but I know I created Terminus sometime in 1993 at the tender age of twel...