Risk…

Every soldier risks his life on the battlefield. Every NFL player risks doing damage to his body and his brain.  Not long ago, a group of young men in a bachelor’s party; four of them and a guide lost their lives in a raging river in Costa Rica. We can argue about the logic of taking those risks, one for country and two for sport.

Although it’s not nearly in the same category as those listed above, every fiction author must face risk too. It’s the risk any creative person takes: the risk of r...