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If you have a good story to tell and if you write it well, the Universe will come to your aid.
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I didn't know the Universe manifests as interns sifting through slush-piles.
Publication is fully dependent on people. People are imperfect, unreliable, and not prone to making the "best" choices when their paychecks are on the line.
Her statement implies that the absolute worst scrap of "professionally" published material is better than the absolute best manuscript sitting in a trunk in a dead man's storage locker.
She ignores the fact that
at some point the writer focused on improving themselves and getting professionally published will be forced to spend quite a bit of time writing query letters, licking stamps, and managing the whole process of submitting a manuscript to a publisher. How is that different than a writer focused on improving themselves and then taking the steps to publish their own work?
Like major movie studios, publishing houses exist to make money. What she is saying is no different than advising the creators of
the Blair Witch Project that their time would have been better spent polishing the script and putting its future in the hands of a movie studio that just released a remake of
Herbie Goes Bananas.
The Universe is just as fickle as the Humans inhabiting it and I certainly won't spend my whole life waiting on something so notoriously unreliable and unpunctual.