Mostly Pretty

This weekend I met an exceptional lady – the type of person that when you meet them, you know they’ll change your life, and you hope that by the grace of God, you change theirs as well. This woman was a writer in her time. She sold articles to some prominent papers, she was smart, witty, and offered some interesting career advice including a possible title of my first book, “Mostly Pretty” (you gotta admit, she’s pretty spot on). However in the spirit of sharing, here’s the most important advice:

First and foremost she told me I needed to lighten my hair. Lighter hair will make me look snappy and therefore more visual to men. Not sure if I’ll take that into consideration, but you never know.

Travel, travel the world and write about what you’re doing. Write like the explorer you are but be accurate. Remember your excitement will pull through so push yourself to love what you’re doing and make others do so.

Love life, and remember that every good writer needs to constantly push themselves. Everyone’s a lazy writer, but those that work will be able to enjoy life more than even they thought possible.

If you think about it, this advice isn’t all that new or Earth shattering. I mean everyone’s supposed to know that right? But having never really spoken to another writer like that, one who did it solely for pleasure, and still got do much excitement out of it, it really was an eye opening experience. Anyway that’s all I have for now. I’ll see if I can’t channel more of her advice later on – stay tuned.