Becoming an Author
Ever since I was a teenager I wanted to be an author. Since that time, I've had a couple blogs; nothing was officially published though. Over the same span of time, I set my dreams aside to do mundane things like full time jobs and juat surviving every day life as a lower-class American. I sold myself a story, I could never be an author, despite the fact that very close friends and colleagues published story after story. Watching them, I began asking myself; how does one become an author. Does the act of having your writing on paper or on a bookshelf somewhere define this? Maybe the act of becoming an author is more ethereal, since we all have stories floating around within us. If that is the case, I might be a naturally born author. I loved creating my own fantasy scenarios, which has lead to my love of Dungeons and Dragons and other such games of fantasy. After all, what is a Dungeon Master but an author of a story that involves his pla...