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I never set out to be a writer. In fact, I did everything I could to avoid it. But life has a strange way of teaching us through the paths we resist most. Sometimes the real gift isn’t the devil you know, but the angel you don’t.

In my October 22 post I shared that I had started working on a new novel,  Begin Again . Ninety days later the key characters in my story have come to life in my mind, and they are slowly making their way to the page. Unlike in my memoir, Seeing Clearly , where I knew the characters in real life, in my novel, I had to create them from thin air, or at least that’s what I thought I was doing. With each iteration of the central characters in my novel I found that they became mor