In high school, if you had asked me what I wanted to be, I would have said a writer. I took every literature class I could get into. I remember reading Noah Lukeman's The First Five Pages (a book on author technique) when I was in the eighth grade. Nothing made me feel more accomplished than getting a good score back on my essay in Advanced Composition. Thesaurus.com was bookmarked at the top of my favorites page. I loved reading the classics and devoured every Jane Austen novel multiple ... View the Post