Writerly advice. It wears on me.

Authors, usually successful authors, marketing their road to success to other authors– It has grown tiresome– J.W. Manus excepted.

So here’s what I read all the damn time:

If you do this, you’ll succeed.

If you do that, you’ll succeed.

If you do this, you’ll fail.

If you do that, you’ll fail.

If you do what I do, you’ll succeed.

If you assume you know what’s best, (the unsaid being if you don’t listen to me), you’ll fail.

Success requires that you buy my book about how to achieve success.

Success is...