The Last Period in a Book

I've wanted to be a writer since I watched my dad use ink and writing calligraphy. And it took 45 years. In that moment, boom. Most people when they're told they're going bankrupt, they don't go write a book for the first time in their life. It's not like I'm some, you know, but there are moments in a person's life where if you could just stop and say, I'm going to write a book today,. He went 16 months without coming home before he got married.