I've got a new article up on the Story Grid website!
It's called, “Look in the Mirror: 10 Principles for Authors.”
I started out to write an article comparing writing a novel to training for a marathon, and it morphed into something a little different. But the gist of it is that we all have that better version of ourselves inside of us. All of us are actually high-performance athletes, chefs, singers, or whatever…inside. It may not show on the outside. And we may not see ourselves in that role, and that serves to bring us down when we daydream about the things we'd love to accomplish.
But if you look in the mirror WHILE YOU ARE DOING IT, while you are writing, cooking, singing, or dying on the treadmill, you get a glimpse of the better version of yourself. So look in the mirror and see what you are, and see what you can become.
