JK Rowling on Failure and Empathy

I wrote this article in 2005 for my RWA chapter’s newsletter The Quizzing Glass. I tend to punctuate intuitively, thus the Chicago Manual of Style sits on my desk and

I am shamed by the gratuitous use of italics in my first chapter. Other than that, I’m hovering in Chapter five, where, unbeknown to me prior to this revision, I