A Writer's Biography, Volume III, Part 1: What made me start writing again?

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The title of the piece is the big question. I might have alluded to this turning point, at different times during this blog. But I really haven't described the process behind going from someone who talked more about being a writer than actually someone who wrote. It's probably about time I talked about that, right?

In the movies - hell, in plenty of novels - there usually is some sort of turning point scene, one moment when the protagonist's life pivots and moves in a new direction. It is one moment of clarity, after which that person's life has forever and irrevocably changed.

It wasn't really like that for me. In looking through old word document files in my "fiction" folder, I see several starts and stops among the last decade. Some of them I talked about before; others fell stillborn after a few months of typing and procrastination. Then there was the anonymous blog I ran for a few months somewhere in the past decade. However, it really didn't have any focus …