Stephen Kozeniewski
Hi, David! Good question. I've always been a writer in the sense that I've always been doodling ideas and scribbling stories in notebooks and clacking away at my mother's typewriter (remember those?) with terrible juvenilia. So more germane: what finally inspired me to get off my duff and get something published?
Well, that happened when I left the army. I realized I'd always wanted to be published but I had always used one excuse or the other not to ("I'm too young," "I'm not ready," etc.) The latest excuse had been that I didn't want to publish anything that would reflect poorly on the army considering the author was representing the service. But once that was behind me I realized there was nothing really holding me back, and I had to take the lumps or accolades all on my own as a private citizen.
Well, that happened when I left the army. I realized I'd always wanted to be published but I had always used one excuse or the other not to ("I'm too young," "I'm not ready," etc.) The latest excuse had been that I didn't want to publish anything that would reflect poorly on the army considering the author was representing the service. But once that was behind me I realized there was nothing really holding me back, and I had to take the lumps or accolades all on my own as a private citizen.
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