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).
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.
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…



