So You Really Want to Be A Writer
So You Really Want to Be a Writer? You are sure that anything you write will be accepted immediately by an agent who will in turn find you a publisher within weeks if not days and you’ll be given a huge advance. Your publisher will arrange your publicity sending you on a tour around the country to appear on TV and radio shows, and have signing in all the book stores. In the bookstores, fans will line up to have you sign the stacks of books ordered by the store for your event. Sorry, it doesn’t really work that way. In fact there is a lot that isn’t a bit like you might think when you see an author depicted in a movie or a TV show--(like Castle for instance? When the heck does he write his books anyway?) First off, to be a writer you need to be a reader. It helps if you read the kind of book that you want to write. It also helps if you have an idea what constitutes a book. Maybe that sounds a bit on the snarky side, but I’ve seen manuscripts written by people wanting ...