One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.
I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!