Believe in yourself. It’s good to understand you aren’t a Thoreau or Stephen King, but isn’t it worth the price of a Starbuck’s coffee to learn how good you really are? The sheer fun of it is worth that much! I began contesting several years ago, and the first one I entered was huge. I didn’t know that at the time, but when I learned II took honorable mention over 16,000 other entries in the Writer’s Digest Contest, I almost…
