on Career Authors:
Failing as a novelist goes far beyond merely writing a bad book. If all it took was an inane plot, one-dimensional characters and poor writing, some of today’s best-selling authors would be receiving welfare checks.
To truly fail as a novelist today, you need to do a lot more, including all of the following things:
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That made me feel much better!
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