Write Right borrowed Don Quixote’s horse, Rocinante, but it’s unlikely the horse will help her win any tilts with the windmills.
For the Love of Reading
Reading has always played a large role in my life, but the first book I recall infiltrating daily life was Where the Red Fern Grows. My mom spent a summer reading the book to my brothers and me. We wept when we learned the fate of Big Dan and Little Anne.
Never Surrender to Perfectionism
If you’re a perfectionist – if you live with the reality of perfectionism long enough – you’ll realize the only way to win against perfectionism is never to surrender to it. If you surrender to it, you’ll accomplish little, if anything, but, if you fight it every single day, you just might make something. No, it might not be anything good, grand, or perfect, but it will be something, and it could be the very something that someone else needs.
Write Right: Averse and Adverse
“Averse” and “adverse” actually mean the same thing. They both are words that mean “opposed” or “hostile.” The two words, however, can’t be used interchangeably because they are meant for different purposes.
What it Takes to be a Writer
What does it take to be a writer? It’s a simple, yet hard answer: hard work.
Do the Next Thing
I didn’t have a career. I just did the next thing on the list. – Neil Gaiman, “Make Good Art”
Unless you absolutely, positively know what you’re meant to do at the age of five, you’ll find yourself on a meandering course. You may have a general sense of direction, but you probably won’t be sure of the way to get to your final destination. You’ll think about things like internships and entry-level positions, some of which will get you closer to where you’re trying to get and some of which will lead to dead-ends and course corrections.