Writing Midway: A New Writer’s Journey Begins

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You’re not a writer, my self-critic, named Karen, reminds me each day as I write. She reminds me, you haven’t been published, well recently. I remind her that I have been published. Granted it was 25 some years ago in my college newspaper but still, I’ve been published.

While I was an English major in college, I was a writing tutor, an assistant editor for the college newspaper, and a…