Telling My Tales

I’ve spent pretty much my entire conscious life narrating to myself. I cannot control writing a story inside my head. If I stopped to write everything down I phrase in thought, I’d get nothing done.

Yet, somehow I stopped writing years ago. I kept up my inner narration, but I stopped getting anything on paper. I’m not sure exactly why. I’d been a journalist and so writing was a job, even though it rarely felt that way. I could write news stories by deadline comfortably. I would do my research and my interviews effectively, even though this was before the internet was in wide usage. I did write on a…