Particularly when you’re the writer.
I don’t remember where I read that beginning writers antecipate that their career will be — as their school career often was — a series of people, overawed by their amazing writing ability, patting them on the back and instead it most often resembles a series of kick in the teeth. I do know after twenty years of trying to be a writer and watching people try and many drop by the way side that those who don’t get used to the kicks and learn to heal from them don’t last. This is no field for wounded souls, even if we are all, more or less, emotional walking wounded. (Not sure why, but that’s a consideration for another post.) Continue reading “Treat Your Writer Well”
According To Hoyt 