What has to happen before you can be a "good author"
A note on where authority comes from.
Whether they’re writing memoir, history, science, fiction, or any of the other categories I specialize in, writers express the following kinds of anxiety to me all the time:
“Nothing much has happened to me. Why would anyone care about my story?”
“I guess interesting stuff has happened to me, but I don’t even care about it that much. It’s my normal. I don…