I’ve been going through my blog archives, and I found one of the first pieces I wrote for the blog—15 years ago. This was before the “Kindle Revolution” had really taken hold, so almost all beginning writers were desperately trying to “land an agent.” (We seemed to treat agents like some elusive species of game fish in those days.)

But what struck me about this piece is that the message is still relevant. New writers are still expecting to jump right into a career with only one book under their belt. This is because we’re still telling each other the same myths about the success of first novels.

Here’s the truth about “practice novels.”

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