The Lifewriter's Digest Article -- Are You A Real Writer?

The Lifewriter's Digest Article -- Are You A Real Writer?: "You know on some level that the story you write will never match what you hoped it would be. And that does not discourage you. Like generations of writers before you, from Homer to Dickens to Oates, you accept your own shortcomings and keep writing anyway. "

Actually that does disourage me. I've spent several years not writing because it never seems to turn out right.