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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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.
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Hmm, 1, 2, and 5 strike me as eminently reasonable, but I don't quite see how 3 and 4 necessarily obtain if your plan, e.g. is to go it alone and without whatever benefits editors and publishers might get you in exchange for what looks like large amounts of money and frustration.