Find Your Mentor

Regardless of age — yours or theirs.

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Throughout your life, you have had mentors. Some better than others. If you are lucky you will have these mentors for a long time.

I always thought that once I was old enough and learned enough then I would be the mentor. I believe I have been a mentor for a few. And proud to be so.

What I didn’t expect was that I would have mentors in my late ’60s. I actually have had several since I moved to where I hope to reside in my retirement years.

Fran

I met Fran while I was still at work. Since I worked for the University of British Columbia (UBC) I qualified for free classes. I rarely had time for classes but there was this one called ‘Get started writing your novel’.

I felt that this was the time to start. I had always had an idea for a murder mystery and would practice my scenes while I would do my running. Never having written anything, I didn’t know what I didn’t know, so off I went.

I met Fran at this class. She had written her whole life and had degrees in zoology and in Librarian Sciences. We got into a group together supporting one another while writing our stories.

Fran loves magical fantasy and science fiction. I would rather a fork in my eye than read that style. Give me…