Not to give up. I think that too many times I got caught up in the pressure of what other people thought, I was always trying to get the story just perfect. but it is never perfect, especially on a rough draft, and I wish I had just seen things through until the end.
We definitely found ways to make the process less exhausting, especially in the revision process.
By the end of the process, I must have read the book a hundred times. It lost its potency as a book, that's something I don't want.
