I thought this would make a good headline for today’s piece because, God knows we could all do with some good news at the moment.
It’s hard to stay positive when we are bombarded with bad news, I’m trying to keep in mind a post I wrote a few weeks ago, which you can find here. It’s a reminder from a Chinese parable that what we know now is just a slice of a bigger picture, whether that is good or bad yet, none of us know.
However, what I have to announce today is definitely good news. Regular subscribers may remember way back in October when I launched my mentoring scheme for working class writers. You can read why I launched it here, but the main reason was that as a council estate-born kid myself I know there are not many opportunities for people like us, that we need all the help we can get — for free, because many of us can’t afford courses and or to pay editors and people to read manuscripts.
So I decided that for one year from October I would mentor one working class writer a mo…