You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
Everything takes longer and costs more.
To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary.
Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.
I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that's another story.
The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat sold in market places, and slavery. Alas, many Conservatives think that everything has to be regulated and controlled.
Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there -it may be slow and clunky, but hardware improvements will bail you out. If you wait until it's running perfectly on the hardware already in the field, it will be obsolete before it's released. This philosophy built Microsoft and is the main reason Microsoft won the war IBM declared back in the OS2 days.
Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.
People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.