Collaboration beats competition when the goal is meaningful progress.
You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback, particularly from friends.
La literatura es el arte de la palabra, y la palabra es el arte de la comunicación.
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.
You can obsess about serving your customers/audience/clients, or you can obsess about beating the competition. Both work, but of the two, obsessing about your customers will take you further.