Just Because it’s Right …

Just Because it’s Right … doesn’t make it good.

When I was writing my first novel, I had the great opportunity to belong to a face-to-face writing group made up of women who were going back to school looking at “Changing Gears” and were taking writing classes. During our critique sessions, they would share what they learned, so I got a secondhand course in writing at no cost to me.

One of the things they’d say after I responded to their feedback by saying, “But that happened to me” was “Just...