Today is the start of yet another NaNoWriMo, the annual effort of an army of writers who commit to writing a 50,000-word draft of a novel...

Don’t sacrifice the best line your book will never know. The work needs you now, and it will need you later, just as you are.

Discovering that someone else published a book just like the one you're writing is a gut punch, but it doesn't have to be a death knell.