SO, YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A WRITER. YOU MIGHT WANT TO RECONSIDER. Robert Markland always wanted to be a writer, but he'd only published two short stories over the years. When he learns about a writers' commune in Southern Indiana informally known as the "monastery of writers" he believes it will provide his best, last chance at literary success. Markland, in his 40s, leaves his wife and two children in Omaha, Neb., and moves to the commune where...