I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.
I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.
My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.
When I started out I was a failed actor.
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.
I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.