I Am A Word Nerd and How That Shapes My Mindset

My journal entry from 11/17/2016:

“Today I start writing the thoughts I have, and have been accumulating, for several years now. I do not consider myself a writer. I am a thinker. I find myself in conversations that seem to get other people to think, too. Not intentionally; it’s just the flow, I guess. The first time I was told I should write a book was …