6 misconceptions that beginning writers should kick to the curb

Like most character traits, confidence and optimism are helpful and healthy — in the appropriate dose.

Anne R. Allen recently read a professional rant about inexperienced-but-arrogant writers that she just had to share with an editor friend.

That friend's reaction set the wheels turning in Allen's head, and she realized that she herself could identify six common misconceptions of beginning writers that are worth correcting.

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