"Publication is not all that it's cracked up to be...

...but writing is."

Bird by Bird

Sometimes you read a sentence that takes your breath away. And so it was when I read the intro to ‘Bird by Bird’ by Anne Lamott this week.

As a writer riding the waves of my first publication, Breaking Waves, I feel as if I am observing the experience from outside myself with curiosity. Being ‘traditionally’ published is an extraordinary expe…