I spent a career in administration and tinkered with writing by going to conferences and joining a critique group. After several years with the critique group one day our teacher asked me to stay after the meeting. Not sure why she asked be to stay I became apprehensive. After the members of the group left she asked me to sit down. She looked me directly in the eyes and said, Rex, you are the most improved writer I've ever worked with, you need to take the scenes you've been writing and turn them into a book. I was flabbergasted. Seven years have pa more...