Why I write.

By Mike Jastrzebski

Having spent the last seven years cruising around the United States on our boat, I've met a lot of people. Many are curious about the cruising lifestyle, but just as many want to know about my writing once they find out that the reason I moved onto a boat is so that I could write.

It was my wife's idea to buy and live on a boat. It didn't take a lot of arm-twisting to convince me to go along with the idea, especially when she suggested I could write and work part-time while ...