Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
“Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.”
“The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed.”