Teaching myself to write again

I have always written but I don’t always consider myself a writer.

I fell into writing when I was a kid, lead there as an avid reader who spent lunches in middle school hiding in a corner of the library with a stack of books. I got encouragement in high school and college from teachers and even tried to be a journalist for a while. Somewhere along the way, I fell into other work, other parts of my life, and though I kept writing through all of it, the words came in starts and fits. I wrote when I had…