Thus Far

I wrote last fall about how I was starting over from the beginning, to learn to write again . I’d been writing seriously for almost 10 years, but my career didn’t reflect that. A lot of things had happened during that decade, from the personal to the global and back again, that had set me back and hindered my idea of success; I remember feeling that the only way I could move consistently forward was to start over and learn to write again from the very beginning. I thought it would be poetic, less actual learning , more just putting in daily practice, letting the words flow and the manuscripts form in a less-stress way. Perhaps, after a few months, I might even emerge with a masterpiece. But as I went back to study writing blogs and videos like I used to, I found that, despite the many things I do know about writing good characters, recognizing a strong plot, and the nuts and bolts of writing well, there is still so much I don’t know . Still so much I’ve been doing badly even, that...