Don’t Hold Back

By Sarah Cannon

For years, I allowed a few things to hold me back from writing. These are the top three:

1) I had children when I was young and decided to stay home for a few years.

2) When I was ready to go back to work, my partner survived a near-fatality.

3) I spent the next five years in a panic.

I also didn’t know what I wanted to do. I knew I was satisfied when I was reading to my children or to myself, or thinking of stories, or telling stories. I was having an awful tim...