Writers should stop being so uptight when people tell us they've always wanted to write

Was reading the Kindle preview of this memoir, Breakfast At Sally's, which is about a prosperous guy who becomes down-and-out and homeless, and it begins with this anecdote, which happens when the author, Richard, who's attempting to write on a typewriter while sitting in a park, encounters another guy, Michael, who asks him what he's doing. Richard say…