That's true...somehow writing for me is a calling - I know that may sound mystical to some, but for me it's like falling in love - yes, there's joy, but also a lot of pain. Sometimes I think they're the same. The writing part for me comes easy, it's the suffering part that comes out of my life and is the basis for what I write. As I often tell young writers, I don't make stories up, I write them down - from my storehouse of bumps on the road :)