I was up until the wee hours of morning trying to get rid of all the unnecessary words in my work in progress so I could send it off to my editor today. I hit the send button an hour ago. Well, I did sleep in between giving up on making the manuscript perfect and hitting that send button. It’s …
The Value of Perseverance
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. –Walter Elliot (1888-1958), Scottish politician Sometimes when I give a talk about writing, I’m asked what characteristic is most valuable to a writer. I can’t really answer that for everybody, but for me it has to be perseverance, that stubborness in my will center that …