Ways to Trash Your Writing Career: An Intermittent Series

It is unfortunately true that it is impossible to publish a partial work. A publisher cannot put half a novel up on the shelves at your local indie bookstore. The first duty of a writer is to finish writing the thing.

A fellow BVC denizen tells me of a writer she knows who was unable to meet deadlines. Even after signing the contract to deliver the novel on a given date! Publishing houses have schedules to meet. They have booked space/time at printers, and when the time comes, there has to be...