On Giving Up. For authors, and, well, everyone else.

Lizzi Tremayne:

Great post, thanks Bob! Reposted here. :)

Originally posted on Write on the River:

“Look to your left. Look to your right. One of you won’t be here by the time this is over.”

That seems to be the refrain for many authors now (actually it would be more accurate to say: none of you will be here if you believe that BS). I’m reading the ranting and raving about Amazon changes in KU, about the planets not being in cycle, about a monopoly by Amazon (while still selling your books on it) about this and that, and frankly, my dear, I don’t give a shit.

The opening statement was one we got at the start of Beast Barracks at West Point and most of the schools we went to in Special Ops. From the Special Forces Q-Course, Ranger, Jumpmaster (we graduated 14 of 87, and all were already Spec Ops qualified—tough, smart men), Danish Fromandkorpset Combat Swim, Mountain Climbing, Winter Warfare, Survival, Aardvark…

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