Great interview. Very richly detailed. So forthright, honest. I know the feeling Verwayne Greenhoe has about writing coming naturally, flowing out. I also identify with him as to “unpleasant” childhood experiences influencing writing talent…AND the fact Verwayne is a Nurse echoes my own triple-medical careers and definitely contributes to the richness in a writer’s mind. An RN myself, so many diverse diseases, patients, staff interactions in hospitals cannot be duplicated in other jobs (say, business, finance, teaching, etc.). The richness of such an in-depth work background, the far-reaching diversity of the patients and co-professionals a writer’s mind comes into contact with, in medically-related careers, is a goldmine of experience for the picking of anyone with a gift to write. My three are RN, medical advertising writer, psychoanalyst. Verwayne Greenhoe’s are his veterinary-rich childhood, his (obviously) mentally ill mother<-psychiatry, his experience as an EMT and, again, his Nursing career in the tightly, high-tension Emergency Department as an ER Nurse. There are several famous writers with a medical background. The most famous is Anton Chekhov, MD, who said, “Medicine is my wife, Writing is my Mistress.”
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