Mary DeMuth is blogging about mentoring, both spiritually and in the craft of writing.

For ten years I wrote in obscurity, nary a mentor in sight. I honed the craft, stumbled over my prose, read books, made my husband read my creations. By the time I met my first writing mentor, I’d been down a very long road of writing in the quiet margins of life. I don’t begrudge that time because I found my voice and learned how to write for the sheer joy of it.