Publisher’s Weekly has announced Slights as their book of the week. I heard this news as I sat in a hotel room in New York, the noise of the streets below barely disturbing me, and it seemed exactly the right place.
The one regret in my life is that I didn’t come to New York and spend a year or so in my twenties. Laziness and fear stopped me. That failure to act spurs me to write, and to seek publication, and to write more. I won’t ever let myself down again.
Kaaron Warren 
*Totally* agreeing about that failure to act. I think the war between our fear of acting and our sense of loss at not having acted is a lot of what life (and writing) is about . . ..
That’s a good way to put it. Self-doubt causes the fear, mostly, doesn’t it? But I think sometimes it’s good to doubt. Doubt makes you work harder, and write that story again, shoot that scene again. Make it all better.