Published: April 13, 2019
Redemptive stories about learning from mistakes make me feel that I fail at failing
About a decade or so ago, I decided that the reason God had put me on this green earth was to write a novel. Actually, that’s not quite right: about a decade ago, I decided to start writing a novel. For pretty much my entire teenage and adult life I had assumed that I would one day write a classic comic novel. Being the next Nora Ephron was just obviously who I was, I’d think airily, taking it as much for granted as being brunette.
And so, shortly before my 30th birthday, I sat down with much internal fanfare at my laptop, raised my hands above my keyboard like a concert pianist, and began.
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