The best writers usually cut their teeth in journalism. Ernest Hemingway, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, E.B. White, David Steinbeck, Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Mark Twain, the list goes on. It’s where they learn to write for an audience and how to be a taker-outer, not a putter-inner (because you need your words to fit on the page next to the car ad). I took Journalism I and II in high school. That was the only way to get on the school newspaper. It wasn’t an after-school activity, and you couldn’t take it until 11th and 12th grade. If I weren’t a software engineer, if it weren’t such a comfy and…