One of the hardest things a writer ever faces is the fact that the novel they love so, SO MUCH is not good enough and must be trunked. Maybe you've gotten to the end of your agent list, or you have an agent but the publishers aren't biting, or you self-published, but after a year of 20-or-fewer sales per month, you realize maybe that novel is never going to take off.
A lot of writers quit at this point, because they LOVE that novel, they put SO MUCH work into it, and they just don't think th...
Published on June 29, 2011 05:22