The writing advice from some of my favorite authors that I have the hardest time following is to write with the door closed. I don't doubt that it is the secret to success of the successful writers I love, and feel like a failure for not listening to their sage wisdom.
That said, I am not a successful writer. I am a successful wife, mother, and teacher who writes. I don't have a room of my own or money to ensure a quiet door to write behind. I am writing between appointments, soccer, work, dinner. My writing is a hobby, at best. How do I grant my life's work the respect it deserves in scant intervals?
I am hoping that by breaking the rule to write with the door closed, that I honor the intent. I have joined a small community of writers like me: teachers with full lives and the yearning to write. I will hold my door ajar for them. This blog will enable me a space where my work is given a room. My few critics will give me insight so I don't (in the words of the Indigo Girls) "miss 10,000 miles of road I should've seen". I know the work is best done hashing it out on your own, in your own time, in your own space, but who has time for that?
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