For the sci-fi nerds, Robert A. Heinlein needs no introduction. He was one of the Big Three English sci-fi writers of the 20th century, alongside Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke.

And unlike acting where you can leave a performance on the stage, or singing, where there is a catharsis when you finish a song, writing is an endless to-do list, it stays with you, it keeps you ...

For some, that validation comes through words, language that gives form to our emotions. Occasionally, perhaps even to the surprise of the writer, they write. And write. And write.