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    I wanted to be the next Nora Ephron, but my novel got stuck. Did failure teach me anything? | Hadley Freeman

    Redemptive stories about learning from mistakes make me feel that I fail at failing
    by Hadley Freeman Apr 13, 2019 3 minutes
    ‘I tore myself in strips trying to write that sodding novel.’ Photograph: Getty Images

    About a decade or so ago, I decided that the reason God had put me on this green earth was to write a novel. Actually, that’s not quite right: about a decade ago, I decided to start writing a novel. For pretty much my entire teenage and adult life I had assumed that I would one day write a classic comic novel. Being the next Nora Ephron was just obviously who I was, I’d think airily, taking it as much for granted as being brunette.

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