I have a colleague who sometimes grumbles about newbie writers. “There’s another nurse/teacher/yoga instructor/high school dropout with no relevant credentials. What makes her think she can break into freelancing?” This is a point of irritation for a lot of established writers: just because everyone can write, everyone thinks they can be writers — as if learning the craft and the business were…
Tag: anything is possible
Tell me about your second acts
One of the things I love about being my age is feeling that anything is possible again. I went through a period where this stopped feeling true, but when you reach a certain time in your life, you stop focusing on all the reasons you can’t do something and figure out how you can do…