Create Alone, but Write In Partnership

Very few writers are great at absolutely everything from the outset. How did you respond to the opening hand you were dealt? Do you play to your strengths and avoid the rest. If you try to improve, how?

Readers get a bad rap. We consider them jerks when they don't dig our stuff and let us know about it, but tell me this: how happy would you be if the book you've been dying to read for so long arrives with difficulties in the experience, and it could be two years in the publishing pipeline befo...