5. Tell us something we don’t know about you and being a writer-slash-parent.
I don’t know if this interesting, but for a long time, much of my
early life into early adulthood I don’t recall being interested in being
or doing anything beyond maybe being a good athlete and definitely
trying to get laid. That took up much of the time and the space in my
brain, though I did make room for insomnia, compulsively reading and
running, and then later consuming massive amounts of alcohol and drugs
as well. As that space cleared in my head, however, and as the drug and
alcohol use lessened, I realized just how much I really wanted to write,
that I had been sort of thinking about it for a long time, and getting
started took awhile, years, but I got less scared and I got started, and
just after I got started, my wife and I decided to have children, and
that didn’t take any time really, but in both cases, I ultimately went
from nothing to something, quickly, and in both cases the experience and
feelings related to the acts of writing and parenting and parenting and
writing have been transformative. It’s a new and different life, and
that other life, had been pretty good, mostly, and happy, mostly, but
this, this is better, better than better maybe, okay, much better, and
just as cheesy as it sounds.
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