Paying It Forward – Encouraging Other Writers

After ten plus years on this writing journey, I’ve gleaned massive amounts of instruction and encouragement from published authors further down the road. While I sometimes wondered if I’d ever have anything to offer future writers that hadn’t been said before, I knew that some day it would be my turn to pass along some wisdom while paying it forward.

Then came a day a few months ago when a handful ofus went out to lunch afterour local writers group’s monthly meeting. I mentioned a social medi...