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To Value.

An Insight by Luke Cowling. 

 Twenty-Five when Owenoak was finished.
Twenty-Five when it was edited and published.
Nervous. Excited. Scared. Proud. Worried.
Twenty-Five.

I could've been younger, I could’ve published Owenoak years ago. The story was always there. The skeleton.
But I’m glad I wasn’t. I’m glad I didn’t. But that’s not really what this piece is about. It’s about the reason, the difference between now and then.

You see my Wife has this incredible ability to detract so many of those trepidations, she’s wipes them away like an eraser through a chalk board. To have someone who can do that during the creative process? Well that’s invaluable.


To have someone whose intellect and opinion I trust, to critique and give encouragement to my art. That is why my works are published. That is why the stories got written, the creatures came alive, the reason books sell. Invaluable.

I’ve already written about the self-doubt that all authors feel, all artists feel. And to have someone whose voice is the polar opposite, that drowns that voice out with words of silver and platinum. Invaluable.

LPC.

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