Objective for 2016: to look outside of myself

Writers can be terribly egotistical and often focus too much on themselves. When they do think of others, it’s in relation to their own lives without being overtly aware of the other person’s. They spend far too much time in their heads mulling over their (often trivial) problems and spend even longer writing about these problemsin their journals. Frankly, they need pulling out of their cosseted little worlds of self-examination and instead need to examine the world around them.

I am as guilt...