You know that random writing opportunity that fell out of the sky last week? Well, as things often turn out in the freelance world, it kept falling right past me and the earth swallowed it up. A part of me is disappointed about the loss of potential experience and money. Another part of me is relieved at the sight of all those Saturdays that would have been spent traveling to interviews and all of those evenings that would have been spent writing someone else’s story going suddenly, gloriously blank.

Glad I used pencil.