Fear!

There are a lot of things one can be afraid of in life,
fear of rejection is one of the biggest for me.

I have been lucky in the last few years that work rejections
have been few (actually it's not luck, it's hard work). This
morning I finished writing my Marrakech copy for the
Sunday Times, filed it then went out.

The first two words of Paul's response was "it's good"...
which was enough to cheer me up. Additions and tweaks
of course follow, but that's how the story develops.