Hello! My name is Mickey Fisher and I tell stories for a living. I've been at it in some form or another for nearly thirty years and it feels like a good time to start passing on more of what I've learned, and just as important, to show what I'm still learning in real time.This weekly newsletter will be a place for me to shine a light on how I developed and sold earlier projects and to show my work as I'm trying to break through to new ideas. Some of it will be process-oriented, nuts and bolts craft stuff, some of it may be more theoretical, or stream-of-consciousness thoughts as I'm navigating my way through the act of creation (and maintaining a career). It's not so much a "how-to" as it is a "how I'm currently..."Writing is hard. Writing something great is exponentially harder. Every time I start a new work, I bring my knowledge and experience to it, but I inevitably feel like a beginner or an impostor. I lose my way. I get discouraged. I procrastinate. I want to quit.And then I keep going.Some of these entries will be self-motivation that I'm sharing with the hope that it gives you comfort if you're going through the same ups and downs. One of the greatest gifts of being in a writers room was learning I'm not alone. Writer friend, fellow creative, fellow human:You are not alone.I want to start by sharing something I wrote exactly ten years ago. It summed up where I was at the time and much of it still rings true today.