On Quitting

This December I quit a load of things to make more room for writing fiction.

I finally came to accept that Iwasspreading myself too thin. I’ve known it for some time, and worked hard through 2016 trying to juggle all my jobs.

At times, I pulled it off, andit seemed amazing that I could do so much. In other cases, I failed andlet people down.

And sometimes—more often than I wantto admit—my stories fell through the cracks. That made me saddest of all.

My commitments were competing with each ot...