Today is one of those days when I want to do nothing. Absolutely nothing. Go sit out in the sun and just let its rays wash over me. Warm these cold feet of mine. Fill me with power from somewhere other than myself. I get tired of the need for constant self-initiative. When you are self-employed, this is what is called for every day. What can I do today to help keep moving me forward? No external machine that churns with you or without you. Only a little hamster wheel with you as the hamster. Not that I’m complaining. Hamsters get to decide when they’ll run and when they’ll sleep. They don’t have a big official boss hamster saying, “Get on there, lazy bones.” On the other hand, they don’t get the luxury of sitting back and watching the wheel move without them – others taking their turn. No, this is the drawback of self-employment. If you don’t do it, nobody else will. Yes, a day to sit and let the sun soak through this body would suit me just fine. Though I best go get a blanket for my feet since the sun is hours out from being that warm. Besides, I have a wheel that needs to start spinning.
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Len Leatherwood, M.S.
Writing Coach
Writing Rules!
Private youth and adult writing Teacher
I specialize in short stories, poetry, personal essays, memoir, and college essays. With my guidance, many of my students have won writing contests and/or published their pieces in literary journals, anthologies, magazines, or e-zines.
Many of my high school and college students
have been admitted to their first choice undergraduate and graduate schools due in
large part to their superlative personal statements and college essays.
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Year-round, I teach classes through Story Circle Network, an organization dedicated to helping women share the stories of their lives and to raising public awareness of the importance of women's personal histories.
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"There is no one I trust more with my essays, Len turns average writing into extraordinary works of art. The 1,500 mile gap between us
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