Eventually I thought: What about my ideas? When do I own them? And once I realized that, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I could not stay where I was any longer. The solution was to write my way out of the problem. That meant writing early in the morning, late at night, and on weekends. It meant carving out time, claiming it for myself. I thought: I will write this first book, and then maybe another after that. This is the thing I want to do.
