Another thought that helps a writer along - let him write his novel "the way he'd like to see a novel written." This helps a great deal freeing you from the fetters of self-doubt and the kind of self-mistrust that leads to over-revision, too much calculation, preoccupation with "what others would think." Look at your own work and say "This is a novel after my own heart!" Because that's what it is anyway (...)
- Windblown world: the journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954, Jack Kerouac
Subsequently, I handed in my short story 300 words too long.
