Shohreh Aghdashloo At the "The Kite Runner" theatre opening

Don’t judge a draft until it’s complete. When it comes to writing novels, some people have what Margaret calls “completion fear”: a fear of finishing a project and discovering it’s not very good. If you have this fear, just work to finish your manuscript; you have nearly endless opportunities to revise your own writing. Once you’ve completed a first draft, you have to read it from the perspective of the reader.