Being a full-time professional writer is a double-edged sword. There’s the beauty and blessing of making your own schedule, of working from home (or anywhere, really), of living in your imagination and telling stories for a living.

And then, there’s everything else: the uncertainty, the unreliable money, the  vagaries of publishing and life, the fact that your imagination is how you survive and if your imagination and your ability to produce stories isn’t at 100% you might just be in a little...