People often ask me how I started writing and I tell them it was a dare from my daughter, who is now a junior in college.

When my daughter was a junior in high school her grades were not where they should have been and the reason was simple, she didn’t do her homework. She attended a small private school and the teachers took off a half or full letter grade it homework wasn’t turned in. So if she earned an A she got a B+ or B, if she got a B she got a C+ or C. Thus you can see the issue when applying to colleges in this extremely competitive world.