Chizelle interviews Nicole Breit, Writer and Editor 1. What made you decide to be a writer and editor? And tell us more about starting Sparrow Writing and how it felt leaving the stability of your cubicle job.?? Deep inside I always knew I was a writer. I enjoyed writing assignments in school and spent much of my down time in my teens and twenties doing creative things, including a lot of writing. In my thirties, I worked one job after the other, looking for the perfect fit. Most of my jobs included a component of writing and editing work. Before my daughter was born I started freelancing. I spent a lot of time wondering how I was going to ever find a stable job with benefits that was primarily writing-based, so I could finally, truly be happy. I never found that job. Even when I was commuting to work, I'd write poetry on the train (and at my cubicle on coffee breaks). Before I finally left the cubicle, I had been thinking for months about how I was going to get my life into balance. I had two young kids under 5 by then but was only spending 2 hours a day with them during the week -- getting them ready for daycare and school before I commuted to my job, and then putting them to bed at night... before I would start doing a few hours of freelancing work before going to bed around midnight, and starting the cycle