Why Did I Decide to Write Fiction?

[I will be contributing a couple of posts a month henceforth to an excellent site called VENTURE GALLERIES --- really worth checking out, great books and great people. -- DRS]

So, I decided to write a novel. This might not sound like that big of a deal for a writer, but it turned out to be a major moment in my life. Really.

You see, not only had I not ever written fiction before—I rarely read it. And by rarely, I mean I’d read one work of fiction for every 100 nonfiction books I’d consume. [READ THE COMPLETE POST HERE]