"Magazines, editors, agents - they all employ young people making $22,000 a year whose job is to read lots of manuscripts and send back letters telling you that you aren't good enough yet: LET THEM DO IT. It's their job. Don't pre-reject yourself."
I've bought random books off Lulu. Most of them are average, as in you could probably write as well, given knowledge of the subject matter. Some of the Lulu books were travel accounts, chock full of navel-gazing type introspection. I think I bought those simply to read about what their trip did for them.
For the aspiring writers out there, the best essay on writing I've ever read:
http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/writing.htm
"Magazines, editors, agents - they all employ young people making $22,000 a year whose job is to read lots of manuscripts and send back letters telling you that you aren't good enough yet: LET THEM DO IT. It's their job. Don't pre-reject yourself."
I've bought random books off Lulu. Most of them are average, as in you could probably write as well, given knowledge of the subject matter. Some of the Lulu books were travel accounts, chock full of navel-gazing type introspection. I think I bought those simply to read about what their trip did for them.