Writers, I'm Getting Real Tired of Your Shit

If you're submitting to agents or publishers before you've edited your manuscript, you need to die in a fire.



If you don't understand the purpose of freelance editors, beta readers, or the whole value of the editorial process, you need to go play in traffic.




If you think your book is just fine the way it is right after you wrote it or it's not even done yet but you think it's ready either for submission or uploading to Amazon or some other ebook publisher, please stop being a writer. Now. Just go to your manuscript and press Ctrl + A and then hit Delete.




You're clogging the system. You're standing in the way of people who take this job seriously. You're making the people whose job it is to read and sell books for a living hate their jobs a little more every day. People who hate their jobs usually start sucking at them. When agents and publishers start sucking at their jobs, it means idiots start getting book deals. Oh sure, maybe that's good for you because you're an idiot who wrote a book, but it's bad for the world at large to have to be subjected time and time again to literary drivel.




Every time you refuse to research the submission process or learn the way the writing industry works via helpful websites (like this one!) or edit your books or act like a professional, you are ensuring the steady degradation and eventual extinction of the very industry into which you are trying to break. In other words, YOU ARE MAKING US ALL LOOK BAD AND WASTING EVERYONE'S TIME. This isn't American Idol, where we need shitty contestants to draw in schadenfreude-craving viewers. This is real life where time is real and very prone to being wasted by people who seem to think they know better than the very professionals who have devoted their lives to this industry.




Please grow up. Please learn how this game works before you start playing it. Please stop undermining processes that have been in place and far supersede your supposed Best Book Evar Ritten. But really, just stop being a willfully ignorant, self-centered, entitled, arrogant twatface.




Thanks.