MOST WRITERS TRAIL behind them an obscure history of failure: work that couldn’t be started, work that couldn’t be completed, and work that was dragged across the finish line and then banished to a drawer. Over the course of my career—thirty-three years, seven published books—I’ve experienced each of these kinds of failure. Sometimes these defeats felt total, but then I’d manage, through trial and error, to stumble onto something new.
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