How Quitting Writing Made Me a Writer

Sometimes you need to lose your path before you find it

Art: Glenn Harvey

Nearly three decades ago, I began my writing career as a reporter working an overnight crime beat for the Times Leader, a daily newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. I hated it. First, I had to put up with the idiotic jokes: “Is there any crime in Wilkes-Barre?” (Answer: Yes. As I write these words…