You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.
Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.
(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)