The Very Best Days | author’s note

Writing can be a lonely and discouraging experience at times. Those inescapable dark days when we feel like we’ll never amount to anything and can’t write worth a damn (even though we know it’s our lying, double-crossing internal doubter talking), or when someone, even kindly, manages in word or action to dismiss or diminish what we’re working so hard to accomplish.

These are the not-so-fun moments, the lows and valleys of the process. When it’s hard to feel excited or inspired, and the creat...