When I opened my laptop on a warm spring day in 2012 and wrote the first few words of an unknown and untitled story, I didn’t understand the journey I was about to embark on. The process that followed was something that taught me patience, perseverance and ultimately gave me a goal to work toward that I hadn’t felt as passionately about in many, many years. In fact, I don’t think I had been as resolute about anything before in my life. I had found my calling. Though I had alw