Next Stop on the Career Path: Part-Time Superheroine

By Alexa Day

Those of you who aspire to the writing life, take note. You’ll be told you need many things, but the most important, by a country mile, is a group of non-writer friends who will cheer you up when your dream job is trying to kill you. The other day, my crew was trying to lift my spirits by reminding me that I have a secret identity, a separate life shrouded in shadows, but in a cool way, like a superhero.

I don’t think I’m doing it right, though. See, if I were really committed to d...