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Why I Can’t Quit the Writing Life Even If I Think I Should
This is a good thing. Writing is in my blood. To quit is not an option.
The first sci-fi novel I wrote when I was 9 years old is impressive only because of the age I was when I wrote it.
Wildfire is 50 pages and illustrated. It’s the story of how the adults of the world allow robots to take over and do everything. In time, the kids rebel, steal military equipment, and create a hideout in the Grand Canyon to attack from.
There is adventure, romance, combat, and intrigue. Or, you know, as much as a 9-year-old can build such.
After writing this, the urge to write continued. I started another illustrated sci-fi story I didn’t finish. I typed my 36-page homage to Tron — called The Secret Computer World — at 13.
My writing began to slow down, though. I was working on a fantasy epic into college and wrote an award-winning technothriller short story in my senior year of High School.
In college, with the pursuit of my theatre degree (ironically largely outside the actual theatre department) and college radio work, writing fell away.
It wasn’t until I was almost 2 years out of college (digression — I stayed in my college town for a year after graduating and…
