Joel Heffner is a writer, speaker and creativity consultant. He started his writing career when the Amphoto Guide to Wedding Photography was published many moon ago. My first article appeared in the New York Times. I created The Story Starter to help writers. It's at www.thestorystarter.com. Recently, I created How We Became Writers (www.howwebecamewriters.com) as a way of showing would-be writers how others got started. My mail site is at www.joelheffner.com.