If you are not a writer and you decide to follow a writer on social media, there's something that you need to know: writers talk about almost everything other than writing. There's a very good reason for this. Our voice, our imagination, our writer's soul is deeply rooted in--

--our lived experiences. We draw, consciously or not, from everything around us and inside us. That is what the ubiquitous and much maligned phrase "write what you know" means. It's how we make our worlds believable and our characters memorable. So when a writer appears to--

--be talking about stuff other than writing, don't be fooled. That IS writing. It's part of the process. It's how our brains work. It's how we turn words into stories. /end