the story-telling event that made me want to become a writer was the premier of the classic tv show,route 66. i was 17,doing so-so in high school,lacking plans and ambition,going nowhere. but all that changed at 8:30 p.m. on the first friday of october in 1960 when a drama about motion gave me a destination. the series was about two young men (brilliantly portrayed by marti...