Trust the Process

By Susan Beiderwieden

You might say I’m a late bloomer, but I prefer the term emerging writer. Following retirement with the freedom to pursue a long-held dream of writing, I realized I was starting from ground zero. How exactly do you transform a nurse educator into a writer?

Without a definitive ‘how to’ textbook, I took an inventory of my skills. Possessing only high school level English courses and one Shakespeare class in university, wasn’t reassuring. My knowledge of the basic rul...