I got a newsletter in my inbox yesterday from Writers’ Digest. They had an article/interview with Sue Grafton (you know, the author who writes the A is for, etc. books) and she shared a piece of advice for writers that I thought deserved highlighting.

Writing is really hard to master. You learn by failing over and over, but a lot of people don’t care for that, thanks. Read the whole piece here.

So just in case anyone in the audience doubted it, there you have it from a bestselling author. Writing is hard work and difficult to do well.

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