There isn't a lot written about how to become an excellent writer. This is because excellence is a topic that a lot of writers shy away from. They feel that becoming excellent is not something they can aspire to. This may be because many writers don't feel that they could measure up against the best writers. Some writers believe that they must receive Newberry medals and other international rewards before they can feel excellent in their writing careers. No wonder so many writers don't feel that they can be their best!

However, to embark on the path towards excellence, you don't need to receive this kind of outside recognition. There are other ways to embark on the path to excellence, ones that are within your control through the intentional and habitual choices that you make. In other words, there is a way of understanding excellence that it is conducive to improving from the inside by small increments as opposed to achieving excellence through public recognition which comes to but a few lucky writers.

Therefore, I believe it is necessary to create a new paradigm of excellence for writers through which the writer is in the driver's seat and can achieve excellence from the inside-out, one small intellectual step at a time. This new paradigm is based on the inner arena of excellence. I shall explain it in more detail in this book.