I was challenged today by a conversation with a professor who asked me why I wanted to be a writer. Her point was that there are many mediocre writers out there, and for every good or even acceptably-good writer there is who actually is published, there are thousands more who never "make it."

So why go into writing?

My answer - because I want to. And because if I do not try, then I will never know if I could have done something.
If I try and fail, well that is an entirely plausible even likely thing.

But here I am writing tonight, and getting not very far. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm trying to write "Creative Non-Fiction" which is much more difficult than it sounds.

Right now I'm thinking that I will never amount to anything as a writer, and it is probably true.

Bah - forgive the self-indulgent blathering...