The Importance of Practice Words

Howard Kurtz: For the majority of authors, your entire first book is a little darling that needs to be axed in its entirety. After you've written a couple of books or had some practice, at the end of doing that, you come back to that first one. You'll be willing to kill the darling's dead," he says. "I did this with my first book, which was dreadful and turned out pretty good"