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Joseph Icha
Whenever I tell people that I'm a writer, they straightaway imagine me at my desk in London with a big old neck brace and quill pen like some kind of 21st century Shakespeare.Really, writing is 90%...view moreWhenever I tell people that I'm a writer, they straightaway imagine me at my desk in London with a big old neck brace and quill pen like some kind of 21st century Shakespeare.Really, writing is 90% good ideas, and 10% trying to get those good ideas to STILL look good once you've written them down. I've been writing since I was a kid. It's as much a part of me as anything is. As it does for a lot of people, it started out as a love for reading. My brother and I didn't always have what other children our age had, but what we did have made me the person I am today.Other kids had TV's in their bedroom, I had a reading light that you could crank up so it never ran out of battery. Other kids had a favourite PlayStation game, I had a favourite Microsoft Word font. Garamond, by the way.Other kids had the latest iPhones, but I had books - and lots of them. For a seven-year-old boy, fiction was a way of escaping my own mundane reality, and it wasn't until I began to internally analyze and criticize the books I read that I realized that I had a writer (and a dash of editor) somewhere within me.view less