Buried Under a Pile of Not Good Enough

by Amy Suardi

Whenever I hear an author advise, Finish what you start, I slink backward. I just spent 4 years writing a memoir that I eventually abandoned. Then I started a micro-memoir collection, thinking short form was better for me. But when it was time to review what I had written to write an introduction, I was crestfallen: this was all I could do?

Your skills just need to catch up with your vision, a wise voice said. But I was so discouraged by my paltry product that I just wande...