There’s a pristine 330-page YA manuscript sitting on my desk and it’s taking all of my willpower to stay away from it. It’s my first novel. It’s taken months to write. Over the past fortnight I’ve spent about ten hours a day going through from start to finish, twice. I laughed, I cried, I culled characters and scenes. I wrote the first draft of Community over several months, starting during NaNoWriMo and re-reading only what I needed to in order to keep going. I didn’t go bac