People will tell you that writing is hard. They’ll tell you that if they don’t write. If they do write. Especially the people who want to write, but don’t. (They complain most of all.) I am well aware of the fears around writing:  …I’ll never be able to do it. …If I do it, it’ll probably…

Quick story: Years ago, I went on a writing retreat in Rhode Island. I knew one person (my friend Becky). The retreat leader, Suzanne Kingsbury, explained the method we would be using: We’d write together, then read what we wrote out loud. And then we’d give feedback on what we liked about what we heard.…