I am feeling very blessed this holiday season. I am grateful for me. And I am grateful for you.
One lesson that I have learned in this long writing journey is that every single lesson counts. I am the person I have become because I learn from every opportunity and challenge.
I have had a couple of productive, prosperous years. I’ve funneled the best of my advice into more teaching tools in more formats than ever, which I make available for reasonable prices. I also share quite a bit of the best of what I have to offer for free, with more on the way soon.
I want to acknowledge ever person on my “appreciation list,” a habit I developed after noticing that novelist Jennie Shortridge had created a tradition on her website of thanking not just a select few but a wide variety of helpful folks in her career. I thought this was a brilliant idea, so I made it my own.
Thank you to every person on my appreciation list. Even if you are not on my list yet, thank you for being here now. Whether you helped me in a big way or in a little way, whether you helped me in many big ways or in many little ways, and even if you taught me a lesson I might have preferred to skip, I am grateful for every favor and lesson.
Happy holidays, writers. I hope you will take the time to honor what you have accomplished, honor what you have learned, and honor the folks who have helped you along the way.