You will make mistakes. If you make them in your book, they will be preserved for all eternity. For example, you will write offensive things into your books, like a disabled character who’s healed by magic—a frequent and problematic trope in fantasy that I neglected to think about while I was writing Graceling. You will learn a lot from this experience. Especially how important it is to listen, how important it is to try to do better, and how likely it is that you will make more mistakes.
