I’ve been a writer for basically as long as I could write. I vividly recall my grade 2 teacher encouraging me to become an author when I got older. And I continued to excel at most writing assignments throughout elementary and high school. Eventually, my friends figured out that this was my forte and would give me their papers to review. It took me until the end of my first year in university to confidently submit a couple written articles to the student newspaper. But then,