Have you ever stopped to consider why you write or why you feel pulled toward a particular writing project? Have you gone deep with the question and answered truthfully?

Have you ever wished you could have lived in the supposed golden era of publishing and worked with someone like Maxwell Perkins? Have you ever wanted someone to gently nudge you through a writing project, providing both encouragement and a keen editorial eye?

Have you ever had such a great idea for a novel that you were sure you were not only going to become an overnight success, you were going to make millions, launch a movie and a TV series, and enter the rarified circle of literary who's who?

As writers, we’re the gods of our stories—we know everything about our characters and their motivations as well as the plot’s trajectory. We created everything, so to us it all makes sense. The truth is, in the worlds our stories inhabit, our readers were born yesterday.

Stories don’t just power our favorite films and TV shows; they are how we connect with one another, how we warn, teach, dream. Stories help us understand each other. Stories carry our history.