How science fiction and fantasy writers tend to self-mythologize...

At the Launchpad workshop, I was talking to Adrienne, a writer of literary fiction (and a webcomic artist!), about the assumption, especially if you're a young writer, that you're a wunderkind who had it easy and just sort of sat down and whipped out a publishable book.

In my life, however, I feel like what I often encounter is the opposite sort of mytho…