Death and Relations Can be Painful

Why I am a Writer -- Written JUST for Me!

This is a writing that just kind of popped up today as I read a response from another author.

I am a serious writer!  I do have something to say in print!  I have written and continue to write serious pieces that many people enjoy reading.  I have been writing all of my life.  Each of my jobs that I held over a period of forty (40) years required me to write, and most pieces were published as policies, handbooks, rules, regulations, ordinances and/or laws and many are currently in use.

I say all of the above because I guess I have not taken myself seriously as a writer of books, stories, poetry, and articles, etc. because they wrote only as their profession.  My professions required me to carry out many duties above and beyond writing as part of my requirement to earn a pay check.

In my professions, I made decent wages, and most of my written works were retained as properties of my employers, but they were products of my writing acuity and acumen.