There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.
All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.
Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.
Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.