MY AVOCATION I had been working as an environmental engineer for almost a year when I started writing my first novel. From 1996-2000, I worked on that manuscript, tweaking it more and more each night after work. Writing was my moonlighting job. My avocation. Unfortunately, there is a stigma about engineers. Engineers aren’t very creative. […]
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When Diana Nyad was 30, she did something that no other person had ever done. She set the distance record for nonstop swimming without a wetsuit. That record still stands today, thirty-two years later. I was thirteen at the time, and remember watching Ms. Nyad on TV. I didn’t linger in front of the set,
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In the summer of 1996, I had the grand idea that I would write a novel. I had big plans for this wonderful tome. It would be epic. It would be world-changing. It would outsell To Kill a Mockingbird. I had never written a novel but how hard could writing a bunch of made up
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