99% of what Writers are hearing in terms of advice comes from 1% of Authors.

Ruth Nestvold:

Great article about the difficulty of taking advice in this rapidly changing publishing world — my own or anyone else’s, since within a few months, it could be obsolete.

Conclusion: you have to keep reinventing yourself. In the writing life, there is no such thing as making it (except perhaps for a fraction of a second, or a fraction of us writers.) Dream of resting on your laurels? Plant some bay. :)

Originally posted on Write on the River:

So how much actually applies and is u...