Call it an invictus. An invictus, in case you were wondering, is a Latin word meaning “unconquerable.” When I use it, I’m referencing the daring, courage-in-the-teeth-of-fate poem written by William Ernest Henley. (It’s worth a read!) My invictus came at the top of the steps at the Book Festival. I had just been to a workshop in which anxious authors-to-be plied several of Those Who Have Made It with questions about how to get their start. As per usual, (I’ve been to a few of these talks before and read articles following the same bent) we got to the incredibly disheartening odds stacked up against us new, innocent little storytellers…