I was going to turn this into a piece about how writing isn’t easy, and you should never think it is from either end (either as an author or as a consumer of the written word).
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has released its list of grant awards and offers, totaling US$24 million distributed among 225 projects all over the United States (and one in Canada).
My “pile” hasn’t been an actual pile in years—rather, it is an entire bookshelf all its own. That’s right, I have a whole bookshelf in my office that exists solely to house the books I own but have yet to read.
My love of reading was well on its way by fourth grade, but Mrs. Weeks utterly cemented it, and libraries still hold a magic for me today, as a 37-year-old, that I am now passing on to my own children.
I’ve written a novel, I feel like it has potential or I wouldn’t be spending so much time on it, I love it, but boy oh boy do I also not want it to see the light of day.
In a recent Writer’s Digest piece, author Julia Kelly talks about “How to Create the Mental Space to Write.” This is something I struggle with…
