I started writing much like everybody else; by wanting to be a writer and writing that first sentence. The sentence was 'I love my cat.' recorded in a tiny wire-bound girly journal.
The rest of the journey is a long stint of having nothing more worth saying, or doing, except hoping to one day have boobs; and reading - lots and lots and lots of reading.
Then one fateful day, I became ill, and left my job as a computer programmer never to return. So I sat down to write, after going through the 72 thousand stages of grieving. I wrote, as is so often the case for the utterly unemployable.
My days are spent languishing on the fringes of the Pacific Northwest, hugging the dog and my husband... mostly the dog.
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