Who is the writer accountable to? The reader? The agent? The publisher? All of the above but those are entities that come much further down the line. First and foremost, we are accountable to ourselves.

It’s here. And it’s been here for a while. The dreaded slump. The period when nothing, but nothing gets done. Those days when you wonder how you ever managed to write anything of consequence.

As a novice writer, I am aware of the importance of learning from the wisdom of those who have travelled this path before me. 

But there is one piece of advice that I cannot and will not follow as it stands.