Nerding out.

The more I write the more I learn about the English language and writing in general.  I write professionally and because of that I've learned more in the past six months about my own errors and grammar misconceptions than I did during two years in a graduate writing program.
One blog that I recently discovered is Dailywritingtips.com - and, at the risk of sounding totally nerdy, I love it!  There are so many basic things that get confused all the time.  For instance, I recently realized that I had used "peaked" instead of "piqued" in several course I'd written.  And then I confused my team about period placement when using quotations.  Simple stuff like that - how could that slip past my attention??!
But writing is learning as you go.  It's a slow process for some, and by some I mean me.
I received story comments in the mail yesterday from Alex and an email with story comments from Sandra yesterday.  I am so happy to have writers critiquing my work again.  As always I felt the slight sting from their comments where scenes didn't necessarily work or the there was no transition between scenes but that is also something that I'm working on - taking criticism in a way that will help me and help the story, and not taking it so personally.  That's what I teach the sales agents in my some of my courses, but putting that into practice is a lot harder than it might seem.
Last night I dreamed that I gave up on writing.  Just threw in the towel.  It was a lot like that scene from Tobias Wolff's memoir This Boy's Life where he meets up with the woman that wrote the story so long ago, that he eventually stole, and she says that writing was child's play.
Is this child's play?  Am I just fooling myself?
Not if I can help it.