Keep on Learning

That’s what the professionals do.

As I listened to an Evergreen Jazz festival performance by two top clarinet players, I glanced around the audience. One row in front, observing every nuance, sat Clark Burnside, the veteran clarinetist for another band at the festival.

That scene repeated itself throughout the weekend: one master of the craft listening and learning from another.
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Keep Learning

We all still have a way to go.

When is it time to stop learning as a writer? Having worked in the field for forty-plus years, I’ve not yet reached that point.

Fortunately, I have a team of pre-readers who see their task as not to congratulate me, but to point to those places I could have done better. They’re not always right. But when they … Continue reading