The promise of failure: one writer's perspective on not succeeding

Part memoir of the writing life, part advice book, and part craft book; sometimes funny, sometimes wrenching, but always honest.

McNally uses his own life as a blueprint for the writer's daily struggles as well as the existential ones, tackling subjects such as when to quit and when to keep going, how to deal with depression, and ways to reenergize your writing through reinvention.