things my parents told me.

when i was little, one of the things i wanted to grow up to be was a writer. i used to write poems and stories and bind them into little booklets to give my family. i wanted to grow up to be just like the writers who i loved to read so much.

my dad (who worked for the gov) would tell me that there were lots of writers who worked for the gov, and that’s just what professional writers did. i was pretty sure that wasn’t the kind of writing i ever wanted to do – and i would tell him so. i think to him writing was just writing, there wasn’t really a distinction between creative and bureaucratic endeavours.

while i have to admit my parents were right about many things, i can now say after almost 7 years experience writing for the gov, i was right at least about that.