I’ve been a full time freelance writer for a little over two years now, and part time before this for going on ten.  I honestly think I could do this for the next twenty years and my family still would be unable to describe what it is I do.  When asked, they generally say one [...]

Are you one of those angst-ridden writers who scribbles in a frenzy with a wild eyed look on any scrap of paper he can find, with nothing but nothing penetrating that concentration- not hunger, not tiredness- save perhaps for death itself?! No, neither am I actually.

Ever wonder how it all started and where? This Live Science article explains it.
Humans had been speaking for a couple hundred thousand years before they got the inspiration or nerve to mark their ideas down for posterity.
But when a Mesopotamian people called the Sumerians finally did scratch out a few bookkeeping symbols on clay tablets [...]