Writers, Are There Too Many of Us?
Almost everyone thinks they can write a book. In the olden days when I began writing it was way more difficult than it is now. Before the computer you had to type on a typewriter--if you wanted a copy, you used carbon paper which had to be inserted the right way. Submitting a book to a publisher meant sending your typed copy (with no mistakes) in a box with another box inside with your address and proper postage, so if rejected the book would be sent back to you. When it returned you hoped it would be in good shape--often though, it had coffee stains, wine stains, missing pages, and smelled like cigarette smoke. If it was too bad, the manuscript had to be retyped--you didn't send out carbon copies. You really had to want to be a writer to spend all that time and money trying to find a publisher. Almost everyone thinks they have a book in them--and maybe they do, but is it one anyone will really want to read? Now it's become far too easy. Everyone who wants to be a pub...