"Invest in learning the craft of writing. Read everything, write regularly, take a creative writing course, join a writers group, keep learning what works and what doesn't and then write some more. Humans are hard-wired for story. Biology has shaped us to be social creatures so we are highly attuned to character and plot. We understand ourselves and each other in the context of story. Our work as writers is to become the best storytellers we can be. It takes time to master the craft and to discover your own unique voice. And then we end up writing something that allows us to connect with others and expose something real and true and universal about the human experience."

Kat Main has been a psychology teacher, writer and researcher. Her writing was longlisted for the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize in 2015 and shortlisted for the Alberta Magazine Showcase Award in fiction. In 2013, she won the Brenda Strathern Writing Prize. Her story How to Catch a Nightcrawler made the 2018 CBC Nonfiction Prize shortlist.