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I'd asked for it. That childhood typewriter became a symbol of my frustration with writing.
I loved to create stories. I envisaged my stories in print (hence the typewriter). But I had no idea how to type. Nor any idea how to turn my vague storytelling ambitions into something more substantial.
As a teenager I did a lot of story writing, by hand.
Still, I had no idea what to do with them. This was the early 80s. No internet. Nowhere to easily share my work, or to be inspired about turning a vague writing ambition into a career.
I got married and became an accountant. A good job and solid income were more important than writing.
Out of the blue, I turned my hand to writing comic book scripts for DC Thompson. Amazingly, in the mid-90s, they published a few and paid me for them.