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Old 02-29-2008, 07:00 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Richard Herley View Post
HarryT, you're right. About 90% of unpublished authors are unpublished because they can't write. The insidious thing about writing is that everyone thinks he has a "book in him"; maybe he does, but getting it out is the hard part.
I tend to quote the late Robert A. Heinlein's rules for writing:

1. You must write.

2. You must finish what you write.

3. You must submit what you have written to an editor who might buy it.

4. You must continue submitting until the work either sells or is bounced by every conceivable market.

5. You must not make changes in what you write unless an editor commits to buy the work with those changes.

Most aspiring writers get stuck somewhere in the first three...
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