Roundtable Podcast: The Aftermath

I think most writers want to believe their initial ideas are perfect.1 It's usually the initial idea that gets us excited about writing something, after all, and would we bother getting excited over something less than perfect? We would not, sir! We would not!

The reality is that initial ideas are exciting, not perfect. Exciting is good, but exciting for an author isn't necessarily exciting for a reader. This realization can be ego-deflating; fortunately, a writer's ego is quick to recover fro...