Writing Addiction

I can't stop. I am an addict.

People often ask writers how long they have been a writer. When I have been asked this question in the past I often shrugged and told them when I was first published. It was a poem near the turn of the millennium. But recently I have been having small epiphanies of things in my past that point to me being a writer long before I realized I was.

In my youth, before my teenage years, I was an avid reader. I would devour books in a very short time and ask for more. And...