Commitment

It was ‘late’ when I realized I wanted to be a writer, and then it took more time to act on that realization. Because it wasn’t that I didn’t know what it meant to be a writer. I didn’t know what it took to be a writer. And when I imagined what a writing life looked like, I immediately thought about Stephen King, Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, and Iris Murdoch (among others). These writers defined writing because they were successful. It took me a while to understand what they gave to reach the ...