“ And I want other writers, especially ones just starting out, to realize that there are other ways to go about becoming a good writer besides getting 5,000 Twitter followers (okay, this is a metaphor…mostly), or getting one’s tribe up and running before going deep inside oneself and finding out what you need to say–what you really need to say, with gnarled persistence, and, yes, plenty of alone time.
March 23, 2010
