Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.