Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
The truth was stranger than the official fiction.
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.
What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.