REMEMBER: To be a writer, all you have to do is write. Being
published is a business activity that has nothing to do with
being writer. Getting recognized as an author is a social
activity which has nothing to do with writing. Writers write. If
you want to organize it somehow into a book that sells and gets
people to like your way of thinking, well then you have to
coordinate a whole bunch of NOT WRITING things... things that
actually take away from being a writer. That's why so many
people who make money writing have agents, to handle that stuff.
So to me? Just write. Don't worry about the rest of it. I'm not
a role model btw - I don't even edit. I just produce, produce,
produce wherever I go and I'm a writer, not a published
author... although I *did* self publish two books on Amazon,
which I did as QUICKLY as I could because I wanted to avoid all
the stress over publishing THE PERFECT BOOK. I just wanted to
understand the process of getting it up there - and it's not
hard. So, no heartbreak required
