This is a guest blog post from Cat Bennett author of The Confident Creative: Drawing to Free the Hand and Mind.
The Road to Yes
I’m a veteran writer of sorts. I’ve been writing all my life—journal entries, essays, stories. But I’ve always made my living as an artist, primarily as an illustrator. Now I’m a newly published writer, the author of The Confident Creative / Drawing to Free the Hand and Mind. Findhorn Press is my publisher and the day I received a yes from them was indeed a happy one. I remember reading once that getting a book published doesn’t really change your life, so writers shouldn’t hope for that. Published writers still get out of bed in the morning and do the things they do. Their bank accounts rarely burst at the seams from newly minted millions. It’s true my life is much as it was a year ago before my book was published. But it’s also radically changed—I feel a new freedom. Read more