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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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
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Absolutely luck is required - but a good book written doesn't mean you'll have it. I understand there are people who prefer big houses
because they filter but frankly I've been on the net since I was eleven and there's an even bigger amount of junk on the web than ebooks are likely to aquire for a long time and if I can filter the net for myself (and I don't just let google do it, I sometimes go through pages and pages and
pages clicking all sorts of links) then I can decide in short order what books work for me.
If writers are brave enough to put their stuff online for people, free, paid or otherwise. More the power to 'em, it's sort of like walking around without your trousers on.
A publishing house putting out a doesn't even seem to mean proof read sometimes these days, I've found more spelling mistakes in some books than I have found in fanfiction.
