You Don’t Have to Do “Big Things” to Make Your Life Count
Not Everything You Do Matters
3 min readOct 2, 2021
I wanted to be the next big literary novelist. I wanted to write something beautiful, something that became a classic, like Grapes of Wrath or Beloved. I wanted my work to matter.
I entered a nationwide competition, previously won by a number of significant authors in New Zealand. The prize…