The Race is Not to the Swift

Or so I remind myself as I boot up the computer and start another day, slogging through drafts, half-formed thoughts, and deleted sentences.

I often wonder about the process of other writers. For me, it’s not the hard toil of putting words to page that turns my sweat to tears. It’s the unrelenting fear that I’m doing it wrong. The words aren’t correct, the character isn’t three-dimensional or believable, the plot is unoriginal/faulty/ludicrous. Do other writers have these fears when they writ...