It's not easy being a writer on the road to publication. First, you have to work out how to craft a novel. Then you have to do it, and well enough that a publishing house will take it on alongside their established authors. You'll probably also have to find an agent who loves your work enough to represent you. Which means you have to do some serious research into agents and editors and the querying/submitting processes. And you have to do all this in your own time.
The quandary: writing a debut novel takes hundreds - no, thousands - of hours. You really need to give up your day job to focus on it. But you can't afford to give up your day job because until you're published you don't get paid. Sadly, even writers need to eat.
Worse, as you journey this rocky road to publication you constantly encounter failure and more rejections. I explore this further in "Conviction and Courage - Essential Writer-ly Traits", over on my For Writers page.
The quandary: writing a debut novel takes hundreds - no, thousands - of hours. You really need to give up your day job to focus on it. But you can't afford to give up your day job because until you're published you don't get paid. Sadly, even writers need to eat.
Worse, as you journey this rocky road to publication you constantly encounter failure and more rejections. I explore this further in "Conviction and Courage - Essential Writer-ly Traits", over on my For Writers page.
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