Somewhere, a long time ago, in a Star Trek novel, I found a paragraph that had this quote, "Psychologists generally agree that a major childhood trauma will often result in people's becoming thieves, murderers, drug addicts, or writers." Childhood trauma aside, this quote has stuck with me through the years. because it seems to place the bar pretty low on being a good writer. (Though, with all the true crime my mother watches, I'm sure she'd be okay if I was a murderer as lo