Writing the Words

I never thought I would write for a living. I spent some time when I was younger cobbling together news analysis pieces for a few newspapers, and I went through a period where I wrote a lot of poetry and solemn lyrics, performed on guitar at coffee shops in front of uninterested audiences, but I never saw it as anything more than a hobby. Something I did alongside my real craft. Something I did for fun.

Of course, it’s still something I do for fun, but there’s a lot more to it than that these...