Create a Contingency Plan For the Days When Writing is a Real Bastard

This is how you stick to your writing habit when quitting seems like your only choice.

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In July 2014, an imprint of Penguin released my second novel.

Looking at that sentence — I still am in awe that this is my life. I put my mind to a thing (getting published) and…