Daniel Quentin Steele
Read - a lot. And write until your fingers bleed. Write what you want to write, not what's popular or selling. The odds are you're not going to make much, if any, money out of your writing. So at least give yourself the satisfaction of writing a book you'd like to read. Write something you can be passionate about. If you get bored, nobody else is going to be able to get through it. Try to sell your books through an agent or through a publishing house, but don't let years pass while you pound your head against the walls of the publishing industry. It's too easy to post or self publish through Amazon or Smashwords or Barnes and Noble, if B&N is still around. If you decide later that your book is unmitigated crap, you can always take it down. But give it electronic life so that if anyone is ever interested, they can stumble across it. You might be wrong and your book worth publishing.
Read - a lot. And write until your fingers bleed. Write what you want to write, not what's popular or selling. The odds are you're not going to make much, if any, money out of your writing. So at least give yourself the satisfaction of writing a book you'd like to read. Write something you can be passionate about. If you get bored, nobody else is going to be able to get through it. Try to sell your books through an agent or through a publishing house, but don't let years pass while you pound your head against the walls of the publishing industry. It's too easy to post or self publish through Amazon or Smashwords or Barnes and Noble, if B&N is still around. If you decide later that your book is unmitigated crap, you can always take it down. But give it electronic life so that if anyone is ever interested, they can stumble across it. You might be wrong and your book worth publishing.
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