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I wasn't trained to write non-fiction.

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade.

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

I never wanted to be a writer. I still don't.

I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere.