By Deborah Fallows — 2019
Why does a community bring an artist into its life? What do the artists and their presence bring to a town and the people who live there?
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CLEAR ALL
You have to hold yourself accountable to your own goals.
The word makes you feel as though you NEED TO WIN. You NEED to be THE BEST in order to be recognized and honored. It forces you to dig deep, drive hard, and step on your opponents. Writing, in my honest opinion, is not about that.
We’ve all heard it. We’ve all heard it several times, in fact. It is a somber bit of “wisdom” from someone close to us, always spoken with an air of warning: “There’s a lot of competition out there…”