Write to Publish . . . or Write to Write?

A couple of weeks ago I shared a twelve-year-old writer’s request for help publishing her novels. I asked for responses to pass on to the young writer and have shared those here, too. Today let’s bring the topic back to ourselves, the grown-up writers out there longing for, needing publication.

Of course writers need to be published, because we need to share our work. It’s as hard for most of us to write in a closet as it would be to play a violin in one. But there are many ways of sharing, an...