What To Do When You Fail

Thoughts on falling short in writing. It's how we grow.

Hey, it’s December! Year’s Best lists are dropping, and National Novel Writing Month is over. Congratulations if you wrote a novel in November, or if you wrote 50,000 words of one. Congratulations if you wrote anything in November, or anything during this entire year.

If you think you’re a failure as a writer because you didn’t write the Great American N…