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Everyone wants to be a writer. Oh, they don’t?
Shit, I guess it just us crazy people here on Medium and other online sites.
I always wanted to write.
Because I read all the time when I was a child. All the time. In the bath, on the bus, at recess, at lunch, at school, right after school, evening and late into the night. Often I barely made it to class in the am simply because I stayed up too late to read.
Reading in the bath is awesome, relaxing and wonderful — just don’t ask how many books I had to lay out to dry and hope the pages would get flatten!
And I also thought I could never be a writer. OH, I tried.
I was weaned on Agatha Christie novels. Just a little brag here — I have read every single one — including Mary Westmacott, and her biographies). So, I love the detective genre and AG.
Did you know Agatha pumped 1 -2 novels out a year like clockwork? She is the best selling novelist — of ALL TIME.
Don’t trash the Agatha Christie books — nothing relaxes me more. I have reread them multiple times.
I wanted to be her. I tried writing detective novels. Sitting down with my pen and yellow legal pad (isn’t that what writers…
