Writers: don't focus only on publication without remembering this...

The essential ingredient of a long-term writing career

It’s a wonderful thing to hold a beautifully packaged and printed book in our hands, to see it in the shops and celebrate our achievements with readers and friends. These defining moments of a book’s publication are so visually recognisable that it’s easy to mistake such pinnacle events as the entire substance of our writing careers.

However, this is a f…