J.P. Mac
I used to say the answer was "keep writing." But I wrote for three years once and only finished a single non-fiction book. Lots of first drafts, all of them hateful, but nothing completed. I finally had to retreat, write short fiction—of which I recently sold a story—and remember that I always hate first drafts and that rewrites are part of the process. For me, writing requires completion and a market. Otherwise, its a journal.
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