Learning What You Know: Taking Your Own Writing Advice

In the fall of 2018, I had the honor of teaching a class at my local non-profit. I had just earned my MFA in Writing just a few months prior and was ecstatic to begin my career as a writing instructor. The course was on screenwriting. As a fiction writer, I was somewhat daunted by the subject. But I had enough experience with the format and genre that I felt confident I would do a good job.

And I did. The students were respectful and kind to what I had to say. The class took place twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the evening…