Back in 2005, I decided to start a new blog that focused only on telling my writing journey, in the order it happened (to the best of my memory and with the help of my journals). I called the blog Fact and Fiction, and in it, I told my story, beginning with my early love of books up through 2006. At that point, I let the blog go dormant as I wasn’t sure I had anything more relevant to say.

Now that I have combined the posts from my four different blogs into this single location, I thought new...