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T.R.'s avatar

I love this so much. The real talk that every aspiring author needs to read whether one has been writing for 50 days or 50 years. Thank you, and congratulations on all your publications! :D

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Morgan Howell's avatar

Really good piece, RW. I didn't invest near the time in figuring out the publishing business as I did in writing. Although I know a lot more than before, I could have done with the knowledge before I dove in. Loved the way you touched on the Big 5 and the agent/gate keeper thing. There is a lot of great work out there that doesn't make it because of the way publishing at that level works but it is what it is. I've not stopped writing but I have deep reservations about trying to get published again.

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