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Originally Posted by nashira
That was more luck than the system working. A lot of people, even if they're good writers, might well give up before lucky number eleven.  |
A liberal quantity of luck is required to get published no matter who you are or what you write. People who got published and achieved best seller status had the luck as well as basic skills.
For every guy playing professionally in the NBA, there are thousands of kids shooting hoops in the playground who think they are good enough to be in the NBA, too. Some of them even are, but without a helping of luck, they'll never get the chance to prove it.
The same goes for writing. There are an enormous number of aspiring writers out there, all competing for a slice of a limited market. They can't
all make it. Some years back, SF writer Norman Spinrad opined that there ought to be enough SF magazines to allow
everybody writing SF to get published. My thought then was "That's nice. Who will
read it?" Now with the Internet and widely available tools, everybody
can get "published". I still ask the same question.
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Dennis