Linda Hunt read her essay about winning an Oscar then and now on NPR last weekend. If you heard it you no doubt thought the essay came easily to her. Good writing usually looks easy. But her process in class was to read it, get feedback from the students (not always agreeing with the feedback) – then go off, mull it over, rewrite and read it again in class a few weeks later. She did this for months. And the essay just got better and better. In a town of crazed celebrity worship and hype, her thoughtful essay on Oscar “not being about you” was a beam of pure light and sanity.