I Mean, I Wasn't Stupid. I Knew

My Dad Is A Bank President And My Mom Was An Accountant And They Didn't Think That Seeking The Life Of A Freelance Writer Was Very Practical, You See. Of Course, I Was Just As Determined To Do It.

Telling Your Story Out Loud Is The Way Human Beings Communicate. We Don't Normally Think Up Words, Translate How To Spell Them And Then Move Our Fingers Up And Down Over This Randomly Arranged Set Of Keys To Make The Same Letters Appear On A Screen.

Every Spare Second I Would Write, Somehow. On My Lunch Hour, Too.

I Did Several Interesting Jobs, Working In Restaurants, I Worked At A Lab Rat Farm, Feeding And Watering All These Rats. Then I Got A Full-time Job As A Technical Writer For A Large Scientific Research Laboratory.

I Don't Think The Author Should Make The Reader Do That Much Work To Remember Who Somebody Is.