The Main Benefit of Experience

There’s one big benefit to experience, actually. One main reason I tell beginning writers who ask (and some who don’t) to carry on to the end.

Leaving out all the others (because they are there) here’s the biggie.

Once you’ve done it, you know you can do it.

There it is. The reason I almost have a story after bashing my head on the wall for several weeks. The reason I didn’t give up three weeks ago and tell everyone that I was a sham, not a writer.

I have finished stories. I knew I could finish t...