Life as a Literary Laboratory: The Difficulty of Writing Well

by Saxon Henry

“Becoming a writer”…a phrase rife with pitfalls, rewards, angst, celebrations, stumbling blocks, euphoria, despair and every other type of emotion one can imagine. It has preoccupied my mind for more than three decades, during which I’ve experienced pretty much all of these (as well as a host of others). Back then, I could only dream of spending as much time writing as I do now—I traveled extensively and was rarely left to my own devises when it came to planning how life unfolde...