Once I had aspirations to be a writer--I mean, earning a living from it--I earned a minor in creative writing as an undergraduate and later an MFA degree. The director of that degree once told me after I'd finished that I was one of his greatest disappointments--not because I didn't do well, but because I did do well and did nothing with it.

Part of my character flaws include a lack of competitive spirit and ambition. Quite simply, it's laziness. People who want to write for a living do it, and that's all. Obviously I don't want it enough.

Damn shame.

But who knows? Sometimes I compose paragraphs or lines of poetry in my head and I think, "I must write that down" and never do. Perhaps one day, though, I will.