I am a writer.
It's not simply a “career” choice. I've felt like I could have pursued a few careers - entomology, history, even acting (lol) seemed like things I could have done. I've even been an athletic coach of Gaelic Football.
But I couldn't do any of those, because I was a writer. It wasn't a choice, it's simply what I am. Even when I was young I wrote stories and “novels”, as I called them.
They were horrible. Of course.
Like the drawings you made when you were a non-sentient grub. You don't remember making them, but your parents held onto them so long you can never forget them, and they humiliate you. “My shading was horrible!” you think as you look at a cube you know to be a cat only because you have been told that's what it was when you drew it.
And like any artist, I am my own worst critic. I can barely stand to look at my own works after I finish them because I hate them. Those ones disappear into the obscurity of old computers that are left in the technological dust.
I'm only going to post the things here that I actually like. Perhaps they're not good, but I feel I did enough right in them to be worth putting out there. Hopefully someone will enjoy them.
I'd really like that.
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