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Colleen Friesen Freelance Travel WriterI am a woman of a "certain age". That is to say, I was born in 1960.   

I have been a voracious reader all my life but somehow it never occurred to me to make the correlation that someone could actually become a writer...  Countless Trixie Belden, Hardy Boy and Nancy Drew sets went by and then I read Diary of Anne Frank. I immediately started my own Dear Diary. 

In the last decade that has morphed into a three-page-a-day habit. A habit almost as necessary as coffee. Not quite - but close. 
Eighteen years in British Columbia's forest industry prepared me for this new world of working with editors. Editorial rejection is a walk in the park compared to being the only female log broker in the hurly-burly resource-based world.   But...I'm getting ahead of myself.

To back up - my husband and I retired in 1996. I was 36 and he was 39. We planned, invested and then downsized, deciding that making more time was more important than making more money.   
Those first years we did lots of traveling, and as always, I was keeping a journal. So really, it was inevitable. Plus, as it turns out, I actually quite love to work - especially at something that I really love.  

Imagine that?  I am a writer.

 

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