Somehow, I’ve made it to the one-third mark of my novel, and it feels like a real achievement. Of course, the thought of revisiting it all during the editing process fills me with a mixture of dread and curiosity. Here’s hoping I don’t feel compelled to toss the whole thing into the virtual wastepaper bin…

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut,” Stephen King, On Writing. The advice to write a lot, ideally every day, is simple in theory but often challenging…