Are you stuck on the first line? Have you googled all manner of tips about writing? Did they make you start your work with enlightened enthusiasm, or just shake your head in frustration?

Fiction bulges with characters. Some fleeting glimpses, some holding our attention for pages. They wander and, at times, race between the lines gluing scenes together — constructing a world of your design, piece by piece.

I have been a writer ever since I used poop to create a brilliant poem on the wall. Few understood it, fewer read it, and no one was looking forward to the next piece. But now, now I have transitioned away from writer. Now I am an author, and what a change that makes. Weird and wonderful.