How Did You Get Into the Indy World?

i started writing fiction back in the late seventies. i just played arond with it for several years through high school college. Then life issues got in the way, and i came out as transgender. And so i spent a few decades basically a dealing with that and the fall out from that. In two thousand seven someone mentioned to me something about national novel writing month. I like, well, maybe joanna's gone to something here. Soi i said, oka, i'm going to do this myself.