Craft and private voice

Possible the most common motivations for writers is the desire to write about something that happened to them or their social/political circumstances lead them into a room with nothing else than a pen and a paper. A writer in the States (west) Dan Harris, one of the X-men writers, writes about his development as a writer - both a classical and interesting story.

http://www.wga.org/WrittenBy/1204/harris.html