Writer’s Write (The edited version)

Yesterday at the bar, a young man asked me if I was still keeping up with this site, and I told him what regular readers of the site know, about how beginning to write technical articles for websites, for pay, had lessened postings here. I also went on to tell him about how becoming more active in my sons’ lives, especially Finn’s, had changed my priorities, and so often these days there are more important things on my plate than pouring my mind onto these pages.

Then I wake up this morning, and there are just a dozen or more blank and open Word files in the computer of my mind. But, not writing has never been about a lack of ideas for me. I recall once early on in my writing life, when I was in my late-20s, when someone told me that she wanted to be a writer…