I've read the Drake for a dozen or so years now, and I've always thought...
One day, one day....I'm going to be in that magazine.
A bucket list item of sorts, we all have to have our goals that drive our craft. Weight lifters and runners have their PRs, steelhead fisherman who search for that 40 inch buck, so on and so forth.
In the process of writing this piece on the Spokane River, what I really learned is that it's the community that you surround yourself with that will drive or hinder your development. Like the 10 year old playing basketball with the junior high kids, I was fortunate to have the council of other great writers and advisors that I look up to as this article took on it's final incarnation.
The emails to fellow writers who suggested some great edits
The collaborators and photographers like Michael Visintainer who bring the words to life with his images
My friends and fellow Spokane River enthusiasts who gave me great quotes and insight to really bring the pieces together.
And most importantly, the editor who gave me a shot.
Writing the article was the easy part. Assembling the right people in my life has taken years and that what I am most proud of.
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