Do You Have a Beacon?

Laurie Metcalfe is a best-selling author and TV producer. She says her advice to aspiring writers: Follow your "beacon" If you need to take a job as an assistant, take it because that's also part of the road so that you can be earning money to sustain you for the long road. But remember, you are a writer, right? And I was like, right? Okay. I can't go off and teach. Not yet. You still have stories to tell. That's not a strange thing to some people that's not a knowable bag of words. They may never fully understand it. So first let me tell you what my dad