RITING HAS BEEN AN EXHILARATing and painful journey for me, the source of my life’s highest highs and lowest lows. I have terrible doubts every day about whether I have what it takes, about whether I have enough talent, about whether I will ever write anything that is really, really good. And it’s a tough business. When you write a piece, it might get rejected dozens of times before someone accepts it. You might get rejected by dozens of agents before one will take you on. Once a publisher actually buys your book, your editor is going to look at the manuscript and want you
