I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.
I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.
There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.
I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.
I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.
I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.