Fear and Writing

I finally got around to looking through some of the "Smart Things" Kelly posted yesterday, and wanted to riff a little on what Jim C. Hines has to say about "Writer Envy.".

As all the Wyrdsmiths will readily tell you, I'm very a very jealous/envious colleague. We've institutionalized dealing with our feelings of envy at Wyrdsmiths, as it were, by making it a rule that who ever sells (a short story or a novel) must buy everyone coffee at the next meeting. I think that helps if, for no other rea...