Post up on Savvy Authors Blog

Hi, everyone! I'm excited to share that I've written a guest post for the Savvy Authors Blog. It's called "Write to Please Yourself" and here is the opening few paragraphs:

About ten years ago I was fortunate enough to get the chance to meet Elizabeth Berg when she gave a talk at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Afterwards, as she signed my copy of her terrific novel Durable Goods, I asked if she had any advice for a young writer like me. After a moment of thought, she wrote underneath her signature: “First, please yourself.”
I didn’t understand what she meant. That was her biggest suggestion? Those were her magic words for building a life as a writer? It seemed a little… selfish. Shouldn’t writers think about their readers and fans? Editors and agents? Parents, friends, spouses, children?
Yet, the older I get and the more I write, the deeper Berg’s advice rings true to me.
Read the rest here: http://savvyauthors.com/blog/index.php/write-to-please-yourself-by-dallas-woodburnDallas Woodburn
author, speaker, freelance writer
founder of Write On! Books and Write On! For Literacy
www.writeonbooks.org
http://dallaswoodburn.blogspot.com/