Some people say writing is an addiction.
Because writing is an excuse to do absolutely anything?
I mean, without direct experience, how do you know the first goddamn-thing about truth?
You can read, but books can be dull, and a lot of bother. Not only that, Reading boardwalks incest, for a writer.
Okay. Ready? This kid wanted to be a writer when he was real little. He wanted to drive a firetruck, and fly a spaceship too, but he was the last one in class, and all the swashbuckles were dibs'd ages ago.
(Secret :) What the tyke really wanted to be, was a paperback-writing Motown-singing National Geographic picture-taker, when astronaut's snagged and nobody ever heard of singing photo novelists when the teacher called on him, so he said "an engineer" like his dad, just to be safe.
He goes to engineering school, and is bored.
He is living a writer's life, working construction. (What's wrong with his picture?) Not writing books, of course.
Thus he starts writing books and traveling the world. Which is fun, and hard, in a rather-indescribable sort of way. People think Fiction is fiction.
and only actors are "method".
That's Nonfiction. Right?
No Comment. Building a web page was the most (%#2&*^%!!) frustrating endeavor ever. I learned that "know-it-alls" heavily blanch, at the sight of raw UNIX code. They employ software to handle all dirty work. That's what I decide, hand-forging this site. "What's the FTP protocol for your server?" I ask some coffee-house guru ( pretty button-bustin' proud of the work'protocol'.) Inevitably, the he or she examines a melee of pencil-scrawl, and shakes a knows-better head.
"Can't say. My program does that for me. Why don't you download blah-blah to do this, (like normal human beings)?"
"Cuz I ain't got a computer." (That really gets 'em going.)
"Why are you authoring (cracks me up) a web site, when you don't even have a computer?!" "I knew you'd ask that."
Brock Foxworthy Hanson is thirty-five years old, and occasionally lives in Seattle.   ONWARDS or MORE