Eudora Welty:

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well, for all serious daring starts from within.

Dorothy Parker:

I hate writing. I love having written.

Dare to Have Written is a project developed by Sharon Gerald for the purpose of giving advice about writing to student writers, new writers, and aspiring writers of all sorts.

Sharon Gerald is a two-year college English teacher living and working in Mississippi. She is also a writer, a poet, and a photographer. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Oklahoma State University, and she has been teaching English classes, including both Composition and Creative Writing, for more than twenty years.