To learn everything possible. art the craft first. Tings like scene breaks, POV, backstory and others were a real revelation to me. I sure did a lot of rewriting!
I have always been an avid reader and from that grew to be a storyteller. My head was always full of plots, but it ask;t until I retired that I was ab le to stat writing. I started writing in 2004 and was first published in 2006.