A Long, Cool Drink at the Well of Encouragement

On surrounding yourself with folks who will support your creativity no matter what

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I met Hayden, a young book blogger and aspiring YA novelist, at a reading in Seattle a few years back. He is wonderfully warm and enthusiastic, so when I started gathering ideas for a book on how to summon enough confidence to get started, I asked…