Finally. That's what you say, right? That's what I say. I'm the master. I'm the

light. I am the licensee of finally. One of the reasons that you're here now is that

your website, Kotky.org, has hit the 20-year marker, which now that I say it, at least

that first time I've actually spoken it aloud, and it just put like a dagger of old age

down my heart. No, it's crazy. But one of the things that I wanted to talk about, to

talk about with you, is over the years I've noticed many times, often commemorating

anniversaries like the 20th or the 15th or whatever. You'll say or you'll write that you

don't consider yourself a writer, which I think is a very strange thing to say for some

of you who's written so much, but I know what you mean, I think. But I consider you to

be an absolutely perfect writer. You write what you want to write, and I feel like you're

at least to me, you're conveying exactly what you want to convey perfectly.

Yeah. I guess I would consider myself a blogger first. Someone who uses writing in the goal,

maybe there's a different goal. A novelist is a novelist, and they use writing to pursue

the goal of doing all the things that a novelist does. But I feel like my primary interest is,

I want to share this thing with you, or this other thing that this real writer wrote about,

something like, I want to share that with you, and I'm sort of using, like I talk,

and the site is very much, the voice of the site is very much me writing an email to a friend

about this cool thing that I saw. Well, the weird thing is that there is no one way to be a writer,

and I guess the idealized form, and maybe kids today don't feel it anymore, but at least when

I was growing up, a novelist would be like the top rung of the ladder, like the hammingways

and Fitzgeralds, and just name of either historical or even current day, that is the pinnacle of

like, indisputably you are a writer if you have written and published novels. I move down from the,

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