I have a mentor for my non-fiction writing. But I never felt her to be really inspiring. Her mentoring has always consisted in finding my faults in detail and in overall, not encouraging, but criticizing. She has not made me understand the nature and the sense of writing non-fiction, for she herself has never been a great writer. If I have really listened to her, I would have long ago give up writing. But my inner voice does not allow that to me :). Thanks for the post. I like the idea, the reality is little more harsh. Good luck to everyone in the search for the mentor!