"Little by little, the bird builds its nest." As a writer, I return to this French proverb so frequently that it is as familiar to me as my name. Whenever I find myself staring into a blank computer screen, fingers poised over the keyboard, and my mind unearths very little, I return to these words as often as I return to Harper Lee's letter to me, wherein she made quite clear her writing advice: "If you want to write, WRITE. Writing is a craft you can only master by doing."