Strawberry Fingernails

Okay, so. I subscribe to Garrison Keillor's daily poetry email called The Writer's Almanac, and just read mine for today. It so happens that today is Edward P. Jones's birthday, and so it included something that he said:

"If you write a story today, and you get up tomorrow and start another story, all the expertise that you put into the first story doesn't transfer over automatically to the second story. You're always starting at the bottom of the mountain. So you're always becoming a writer. You're never really arriving."