Tag: fiction
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on creating dragons

This November, I wrote a list of 26 items I wanted to complete in the month, as the sun sets and all my energy disappears along with it. I call it “Procrastination Prevention.” It coincides with the age I’m turning in a few weeks. One of those items was to put together an order for…
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the self-doubt gargoyle on my shoulder

I have this image that if I don’t succeed now, I’ll be a failure forever. There’s an urgency to it. Get that website off the ground. Start promoting your work now, even before you’ve finished anything. Write that novel—first draft, second draft, third, fourth—before you hit 25. Ironic, because I am a notoriously slow writer.
Danaye