After leaving, I wondered if I did the right thing. Often. My mental health was suffering majorly from this formula, and I couldn't keep up. But I thought "maybe I just can't hack it." All of the terrible self-doubt.

Lesson 7: SERIOUSLY. Trust your gut. Don't write what everyone else wants you to write. Book trends are cyclical. Just do you, boo.

Finally, while all of this was happening, I had my biggest CF of a house at the same time.

Part Twelve