“But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.” ~ Jane Austen It can be very difficult being a writer. Besides the actual work involved in creating something someone else will actually want to read, there is the seemingly never-ending string of critics and “experts” who always have a better idea of how you should do your job. “Cut this, add that, switch those words around, drop that character entirely, shorten that sentence, tighten that paragraph, and, yeah, basically start all over,” is the overall impression I get from most voices in the profession of modern literature. Certainly, they have a point.…