Does the persistent anxiety that you should be writing more ever go away?

The glib answer would be to say, “Ask me in a few more years.”

But, more truthfully, while I understand exactly what you’re talking about, I don’t experience that feeling as anxiety so much as I feel a sense of incompleteness in any day where I don’t accomplish something. Some days, that sense of accomplishment can only be attained by writing; other days I can feel quite accomplished just playing with my daughter.

These days, as POWERS rushes toward its first day of production and I have a gre...