Hi
I hope you enjoyed The Top Three Biggest Mistakes Authors Make.
If you haven’t had a chance to discover the three mistakes yet, you can do so here.
I’ve only one thing to share with you today and it involves something I get embarrassed talking about… Me.
At school, my English teacher, let’s call her Miss Lumsdon (because that’s her name), wrote in my final school report...
‘Michael will never do anything with the English Language!’
That didn’t bother me. I was going to be going ‘up’ in the world!
My dad had a roofing business and I was joining to be an apprentice slater and tiler.
Fast forward a few years and I had to write.
I became a youth worker, fundraiser and eventually a professional speaker.
All of these required me to produce words. Writing.
And yet Miss Lumsdon’s report kept popping up from goodness knows where.
Could I really do this?
Who’s your Miss Lumsdon ? We all have one.
That person who knocked your confidence. The one that sits deep inside and creates the wedge of doubt.
Time to kill Miss Lumsdon!
[This is where, for legal reasons, I point out that this is a metaphor]
One day, I realised a simple truth.
Miss Lumsdon hasn’t a clue who I am. What I do. Why I write. In fact, I’d bet you fifty quid she has no recollection of writing that school report.
I killed her there and then. Quite a twisty plot for a fiction writer.
Pupil kills ex-teacher after 20 years for dodgy school report from 1983.
Time to kill your Miss Lumsdon. You've got this.
Tomorrow, I’m going to share a couple of secret bonuses you can receive from writing.
Be Brilliant!
Michael Heppell
PS Did you join my How to Be Brilliant Facebook Group? If so, dive in, write a post (Miss Lumsdon isn’t a member) and introduce yourself. If you haven’t joined just yet, please do it now.
You can join here www.facebook.com/groups/howtobebrilliant
