One of the weird things that I do not quite understand about writing is where the “inclinations” to write certain things come from. What ever prompts me to write anything? That is certainly something that many of the people who dislike my articles and tweets have asked over and over again, but I don’t mean to say, “why am I a writer at all?” I mean, where in the psyche do words and sentences come from? What made me want to write this paragraph? What made me want to write the sentence that started it?
I say all of that because I wanted to start this piece by writing, “I hate to say it, but I predicted that I’d be writing this article this season.