Hmmm. English major, turned instructor, turned NanoWrimo writer, turned fanfiction writer, turned ... dizzy from so many turns. Basically, after a lot of practice, I'm finally started on my own attempt at writing the mediocre American Novel. I am in no way deluded enough to think that it would be the great American novel when we've had the likes of Thoreau and Hemingway and Dickinson -etc.