I had conversations with three talented authors recently and they all said the same thing in their own unique, evocative way.

Writers need to resist the urge to write.

Yup. You heard me. That’s me paraphrasing, but the message was the same, three times over:

Exercise patience and don’t start writing until you’ve wrapped your arms around the subject matter.

I did a modicum of research for my ‘work-in-progress’ and found some surprising ancestry info. It was research, of a sort, bu...