You are always a writer: motivation

Are you unable to write?

Don’t worry. Writing is like a disease. It may go into remission, but it never leaves you. It sounds like a rather negative analogy, but it’s true. Let me tell you my story.

I stepped away from my writing for nearly two years after my son took his own life in 2011. During this time, I didn’t look at my short stories or half-started novels. I did not revise the manuscript I had finished, the one I loved best, the one my then-agent couldn’t sell. I did not write...