Even though I was told in my early twenties that I had the astrological chart of a writer, I’m not sure if I’ll ever quite get used to people thinking of me as one. Of course, I had heard the words “find your voice” but I hadn’t a clue as to: One, what that meant; two, if it was something I really needed to know much, if anything, about; and three, if I did, how would I go about finding it?
My earliest attempts at writing were high school English papers. I went to a very small school (there were 24 students in my graduating class) and each year we had the same English teacher. Almost all of the papers I wrote were returned with a mark of B- and the comment, “Needs more development.”...