faith

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller

Writing is always full of self-doubt, but the first book [Torch] is really full of self-doubt, and it was much more of a struggle to keep the faith. By the time I wrote Wild, I was familiar with that feeling of doubt and self-loathing, so I just thought “Okay, this is how it feels to write a...