Fear of the Pain of Failure is Like Having a School Bully Camped on your Shoulder

But it doesn’t have to be this way

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It took me a year after finishing it to publish Morrina, and a few months more to tell anyone. So what’s changed?

The first thing that’s happened is I’ve become a better writer, and this has given me more confidence. How did I improve my writing? I upped my reading from a book a fortnight to two books a week. I even included a f…