Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for pelicans.

The work of writing tends to happen during quiet pockets of time, on Zoom calls over huge distances, and in the otherwise secluded spaces we create for it.

This is not new. In fact, today's post centers around a letter that Maxwell Perkins wrote to a would-be author in the middle of World War II.

- Perkins' advice about being patient as a writer

- A story about Hemingway and a pelican

- What makes "good writing"

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