What writing is.

Being a new writer is scary. Writing down your deepest emotions or darkest thoughts for all to see. It might as well be on on your own skin written in your own blood while you stand naked in public. But there's a beautiful caveat to this. Writing in the presence of supportive readers makes the experience change drastically. It becomes a loving, warm light cast in a quiet room, where you sit in front of a block of clay. You grab your tools and scrape away everything until you find what's inside. Every hand of every reader helps you guide yours. Every laugh and smile and tear helps accentuate each line. What I look for in new writers is the spark, which many have, so we must kindle that spark until it becomes a healthy fire. With positive and helpful support, every writer can find their own way in the world of writing. It takes a village, to raise a writer, and that village is Prose.