Transitions of a Writer

When I started writing, I really just wanted to see if I could publish. I wanted to see my name on a book. I hadn't written much since I had graduated College some 20 years earlier. It is horrible how such drilled in skills slowly deplete over time. I didn't think I needed an editor. I didn't think I needed a proof reader. After all, I was an English Major. The twenty years or the fact that once you have read a work over and over to the point your brain sees what should be there w...