by Ginny Cruz, MPA, PT
When God added writing to my calling, I should have known my progress would mimic the rest of my life—slow and steady. No one has ever mistaken me for the hare in Aesop’s fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. While I’ve always been athletic and love sports, speed has never been my forte. But as we learned in that fable, tortoises have advantages.
Success in writing, like most things in life, is built upon the mastery and consistent performance of little things. Many of us recall our elementary days of doing drills. We practiced writing letters and words until we mastered the pencil strokes. We paced the floor, memorizing spelling words in a frantic effort to pass the Friday spelling test. As children, we discovered writing well required slow and steady practice and lots of it.
