Why do I write? Because writing makes me happy and gives me something I desperately crave – an outlet for all of the people and worlds living in my head.<\/p>\n
Writers aren’t exactly people…they’re a whole lot of people trying to be one person.
\n-F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To be honest, I don’t ever expect to become rich off of my writings. I don’t exactly see myself as being the next J.K. Rowling or Laurell K. Hamilton or Stephen King.<\/p>\n
I just like to write.<\/p>\n
I do hope to reach the point – soonish rather than later – where I will be able to pay off all of my debts and make a fairly comfortable living. I would like to be able to give the Kid a good education and a nice place to live. Most of all, I never want to worry about him going hungry again.<\/p>\n
But even if I was living in a gutter somewhere, I would still write, because it is my passion and my joy.<\/p>\n
Even if there was no one to read the words, I would still write them down. On a computer, in a notebook, in the dirt on the floor… the words would still flow out of me and always will.<\/p>\n
That being said, I really do appreciate it when someone reads something I’ve written. Whenever I sell a book, I feel a jolt of pleasure at the idea that someone out there is meeting the people I created and traveling the world they live in. And I hope they experience the same richness of feeling that I did as I wrote every word and imagined every action or scene.<\/p>\n
Feedback is always appreciated, but to just know that someone is reading something I’ve created… that’s enough.<\/p>\n
~Peace, love, joy<\/p>\n
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