by Henry McLaughlin @RiverBendSagas
When I’m introduced as a writer to a group of non-writers, I get a wide range of reactions. Some look at me as if I’m from another planet. Others back away as if they might catch a strange disease.
In my early days, one person asserted I couldn’t be a writer because I wasn’t published yet. Made me wonder what all those hours of working on a manuscript made me. Or if a surgeon wasn’t really a surgeon until he actually operated on someone. That’s a surgeon I would avoid.
Among the responses I get is, “I’ve always wanted to write a novel. How do you do it?”
